James Cameron Quotes

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• Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

  James Cameron

  Reality, Imagination, Force

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

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Monday

  "Man of Extremes". Interview with Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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

  James Cameron

  Luck, Strategy, Factors

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friends

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Inspirational, Moving, Perfect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your only competitors are your past achievements.

  James Cameron

  Past, Achievement, Competitors

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• Your imagination can create a reality

  James Cameron

  Reality, Imagination

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

  James Cameron

  Fate, Judgment Day, Judgement Day

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• 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

  Dream, People, Leap Of Faith

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term

  James Cameron

  Long, Healthy, Enemy

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• I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

  James Cameron

  Mistake, Goal, Levels

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• Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

  James Cameron

  Moving, Insane, Sometimes

  "Avatar". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

  James Cameron

  Philosophy, Fire, Flood

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Waiting

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Hopeful, Able

  "James Cameron emerges from 'alien world' at ocean's depths" by Josh Levs, edition.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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• 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, Curiosity, Five Senses

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• What are the lessons learned? Well, I think number one is curiosity. It's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. And the respect of your team is more important than all the laurels in the world.

  James Cameron

  Powerful, Curiosity, Most Powerful

  "Before Avatar ... a curious boy". James Cameron at TED2010, www.ted.com. March 04, 2010.

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• A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.

  James Cameron

  Jobs, Passion, People

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.151, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  James Cameron

  Heart, Magic, Mind

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  James Cameron

  Wind, Feelings, Acting

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• I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

  James Cameron

  Jobs, Mean, Commitment

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  James Cameron

  Mean, Successful, Agreement

  "Man of Extremes The Return of James Cameron" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

  James Cameron

  Doubt, Causes, Qualified

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.120, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Other Worlds, Fiction, Fantasy

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, People, Challenges

  "James Cameron touts vegan diet during Nat Geo gala" by Michael d'Estries, www.mnn.com. June 17, 2013.

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