James Cameron Quotes, Thoughts and images

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Your only competitors are your past achievements.

Your imagination can create a reality

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.

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

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

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

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

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

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

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

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.