I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before. - James Cameron
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with. - James Cameron
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth. - James Cameron
It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group. - James Cameron
It's important for me to have hope because that's my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we're not going to leave them in a world that's in shambles, that's a chaotic place, that's a dangerous place. - James Cameron
I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility. - James Cameron
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. - James Cameron
Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term. - James Cameron
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. - James Cameron
People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things. - James Cameron
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. - James Cameron
Sometimes the more fantastic an idea is, the more you have to be very careful about how you design it. - James Cameron
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing. - James Cameron
Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being. - James Cameron
The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer. - James Cameron
The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth. - James Cameron
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. - James Cameron
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask. - James Cameron
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water. - James Cameron
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