Top 80 James Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Rose: You’re crazy. Jack: That’s what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I’m not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C’mon, give me your hand. You don’t want to do this.”

— James Cameron

52. “Jack: Rose! You’re so stupid. Why did you do that, huh? You’re so stupid, Rose. Why did you do that? Why? Rose: You jump, I jump, right? Jack: Right. Rose: Oh God! I couldn’t go. I couldn’t go, Jack. Jack: It’s all right. We’ll think of something. Rose: At least I’m with you.”

— James Cameron

53. “NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?”

— James Cameron

54. “When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.”

— James Cameron

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

— James Cameron

56. “It’s important for me to have hope because that’s my job as a parent, to have hope, for my kids, that we’re not going to leave them in a world that’s in shambles, that’s a chaotic place, that’s a dangerous place.”

— James Cameron

57. “Rose: You’re trembling. Jack: I’ll be alright.”

— James Cameron

58. “It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that is having a huge impact on the planet, using up resources and destroying the biosphere.”

— James Cameron

59. “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

60. “Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.”

— James Cameron

61. “The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.”

— James Cameron

62. “I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.”

— James Cameron

63. “Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite-an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia.”

— James Cameron

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

— James Cameron

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don’t get it from a specific religious doctrine, you’ll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.”

— James Cameron

68. “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

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

— James Cameron

70. “Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.”

— James Cameron

71. “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.”

— James Cameron

72. “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

73. “I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They’re going to be personal and they’re going to take a lot of my energy. I’m not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn’t interest me.”

— James Cameron

74. “I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father’s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.”

— James Cameron

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

— James Cameron

76. “I’m certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.”

— James Cameron

77. “This is a vast frontier that’s going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.”

— James Cameron

78. “Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.”

— James Cameron

79. “The films that influenced me were so disparate that there’s almost no pattern.”

— James Cameron

80. “Whatever you’re doing failure is an option, but fear is not.”

— James Cameron

81. “I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.”

— James Cameron

82. “I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have.” Kyle Reese in The Terminator.”

— James Cameron

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

— James Cameron

84. “I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff “pieces”, when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.”

— James Cameron

85. “I don’t just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.”

— James Cameron

86. “Nature’s imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.”

— James Cameron

87. “NASA has this phrase that they like: ‘Failure is not an option.’ But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration, because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. So, that’s the thought I would leave you with, is that in whatever you’re doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.”

— James Cameron