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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

Small, Movies, Fee, Director

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

Will, More, Nay, Qualified

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

Very, Squeezing, Civilized, Snake

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

- James Cameron

Myself, Think, Certainly, Little League

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

- James Cameron

I Think, Enterprise, Sum, Exactly The Way

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

- James Cameron

Pat, Harm, Given, Wild Animal

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

Thought, Leap Of Faith, Over, Leap

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

Die, Wait, Very, Plunge

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

- James Cameron

Hollywood, Like, Established, Blue-Collar

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

- James Cameron

Been, Rewarding, Became, Richer

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

Magic, Lord, Brooding, Balances

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

- James Cameron

Will, Everyone, Set, Goals

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

Sometimes, Other, I Think, Scripts

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, Escapism, Read, Science Fiction

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

- James Cameron

Mother, Artist, She, Housewife

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

- James Cameron

Future, Will, TV, Defined

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

- James Cameron

Answer, About, Take, Film Industry

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, New, Some, Every Time

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

- James Cameron

Love, Travel, New, Trips

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

- James Cameron

Influenced, Films, Almost, Disparate

People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.

- James Cameron

Hollywood, Telling, Works, Different Things

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

Think, I Think, Gotten, Explored

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

Entertainment, About, Solved, Sensory

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

- James Cameron

Happen, Could, Inspirations, Conversation

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

- James Cameron

Fact, Here, Very, Jacques

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

Paint, Production, Quickly, Builder

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

Waiting, Surfing, Idea, Energy

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

- James Cameron

Makeup, Always, Wounds, So Much Time

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

- James Cameron

Fact, May, Certainly, Indigenous

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

Hollywood, Handshake, Very, Unusual

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