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Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
- James Cameron
#Air
#Float
#Ideas
#Me
#Point
To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.
- James Cameron
#Energy
#Harvest
#Moment
#People
#Waiting
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
#Act
#Long Time
#Long
#Me
#Time
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
#Me
#Next
#People
#Right
#Something
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
- James Cameron
#Creativity
#Listening
#Music
#Song
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
- James Cameron
#Fantasy
#Me
#Pure
#Read
#Science Fiction
#Science
#Sense
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
#Everything
#Know
#Ocean
#People
#Sense
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
#Director
#Makes
#Myself
#Never
#Sense
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
- James Cameron
#Capable
#Least
#Pay
#Population
#Who
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
#Design
#Moving
#Paint
#Sense
#Up
#Watching
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
- James Cameron
#Evening
#Moment
#River
#Sun
#World
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
- James Cameron
#Almost
#Films
#Me
#Pattern
#Were
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
- James Cameron
#Earth
#Love
#Me
#New
#Travel
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
#Play
#Rules
#Storytelling
#Technology
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
- James Cameron
#Alien
#Death
#Gonna
#Talk
#You
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
- James Cameron
#Human
#Imagination
#Nature
#Our
#Own
I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.
- James Cameron
#Business
#Eyes
#See
#Technology
#World
The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
- James Cameron
#About
#Answer
#Cannot
#Film
#People
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
#Exploration
#Places
#Returning
#Story
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
#Away
#Forest
#Slowly
#Snake
#World
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
#Gift
#Hope
#New
#See
#Sometimes
#Time
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
#Dreams
#Faith
#Leap Of Faith
#People
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
- James Cameron
#Everyone
#Failure
#Goals
#High
#Success
#Will
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
#Everything
#Matter
#Movies
#Name
#Shoot
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