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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.

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James Cameron
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 14
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I am king of the world!
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
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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.
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Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
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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.
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Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we put it into the next generation of the cameras so we're constantly improving. It's kind of like building a race car, racing it, then running back to the shop and working on the engine some more and tinkering with it to improve it.
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There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
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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.
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