"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
James Cameron"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith."
James Cameron"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."
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"Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination."
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"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"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."
James Cameron