Quotes by James Cameron

If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life.

The greatest technology in the world hasn't replaced the ultimate relationship built between two people in the space of a handshake.

I want to keep pushing the limits of what we can do in filmmaking.

I always want to learn something.

I'm willing to sacrifice everything for my dreams.

The most important thing is to have a vision and go for it.

Every time I make a movie, I'm trying to invent new ways of doing things.

It's the director's job to always make sure the audience's curiosity is at its peak.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

I think the last thing you want to do as a filmmaker is make yourself the center of attention.

I love the ocean. I've always been fascinated with the ocean.

The deeper you go, the more secrets you find.

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Sometimes we have to get really, really bad before we get really, really good.

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

Every director is given 50 questions to answer. It's the director's job to know which 20 to focus on.

When you go to the movies, your whole life can change in a heartbeat.

The hardest part is getting to the point where you're ready to go. You want it to be perfect, but perfection is the enemy of good.

I've been working in a lot of different genres for quite a while, and I think that one of the things that has kept me going and kept me interested is the ability to challenge myself in new ways.

I had a philosophy that if you are ever feeling like you can't quite do the project you set out to do, just start doing it and that fear will go away.

As a filmmaker, deep dives are something that you must do to understand the place you're trying to get to on the surface.

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

To be a successful filmmaker, you have to be constantly opening doors.

If you have a deep core belief in something, you act on it.

I watched a couple of films with my 12-year-old daughter and the minute she saw anything that wasn't truthful, she would look at me and say, 'That's not real.' That's the only critic I care about.

I think the most important thing to do is to become aware that you're a machine. You are a robot in a sense. You're a machine that can think, but you're also a machine that can be programmed.

If you have to steal, steal from the best.

If you want to move through a virtual reality, you've got to be able to interact with that world.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

When you have the ability to dream, you're halfway to success.

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.

I always do a lot of planning in my films. I think that it has to be more precise in animation because it is so expensive, and everything must be done in a precise manner.

There are no walls in the world of the imagination.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

You have to live in the future to imagine it.

I love it when I have a nightmare. That means I got my money's worth out of my imagination.

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

You have to not listen to the naysayers, because there will be many, and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to think twice. What you have to do is define for yourself what success is.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

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

I like difficult. Difficult is a reason to do something.

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

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they overthought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Failure is an option, but fear is not.

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

I'd rather be his whore than your wife.

Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise. - Jack

I'll never forget you.

I love you, Jack.

I'll never let go. I promise.

You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

Rose, you're no picnic, alright? You're a spoiled little brat, even, but under that, you're the most amazingly, astounding, wonderful girl, that I've ever known.

To making it count.

Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you.

I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go.

I'm the king of the world!

I'm king of the world!

I'll be back.