The Best James Cameron quotes

I’m King Of The World!!! — James Cameron

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now. — 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 snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be. — James Cameron

The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer. — James Cameron

If we get fortunate enough to make some money with’ dark fate’ we know exactly where we can go with the subsequent films. — James Cameron

All my films are love stories. — James Cameron

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there’s almost no pattern. — James Cameron

I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver. — James Cameron

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film. — James Cameron

The film is about death and separation; he had to die. so wheTher it was that, or wheTher a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. — James Cameron

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience. — James Cameron

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything. — James Cameron

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes. — James Cameron

The future of 3D will be defined by TV. — James Cameron

I don’t just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap. — James Cameron

Rose: You’re trembling. Jack: I’ll be alright. — James Cameron

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars. — James Cameron

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me… in every way that a person can be saved — James Cameron

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn’t have jumped. — James Cameron

Rose: You’re crazy. Jack: That’s what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I’m not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C’mon, give me your hand. You don’t want to do this. — James Cameron

Old Rose: It’s been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was. — James Cameron

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean. — James Cameron

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. — James Cameron

I love you Jack. A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets. Jack, this is where we first met. — James Cameron

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three–day town on earth. — James Cameron

Nature’s imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. — James Cameron

It’s about human imagination and curiosity. What’s out there? What’s in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can’t see with our five senses? — James Cameron

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don’t put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you. — James Cameron

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. — James Cameron

I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have.’ Kyle Reese in The Terminator — James Cameron

Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new–some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t. — 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

I always do makeup touch–ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time. — James Cameron

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you’ve got to remember those inspirations. — James Cameron

Don’t get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film. — James Cameron

If you wait until the right time to have a child you’ll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it’s bad. — 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

You don’t rest well as long as you’re seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn’t done, but it’s time to move on and sleep well. — 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

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn’t the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed. — James Cameron

It’s really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place. — James Cameron

So much of literary sci–fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We’ll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world. — James Cameron

When the ship docks, I’m getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn’t make any sense, that’s why I trust it. — James Cameron

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all. — James Cameron