Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Cameron
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 14
Actor
Director
Engineer
Explorer
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Inventor
Philanthropist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
ONT
James Francis Cameron
Jim Cameron
Actors
Give
Giving
Long
Something
Took
Time
Realize
Realizing
Bits

More quotes by James Cameron

Image
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
Image
What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
James Cameron
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.
James Cameron
Image
Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.
James Cameron
Image
I am king of the world!
James Cameron
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
James Cameron
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
James Cameron
Image
Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.
James Cameron
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
James Cameron
Image
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
James Cameron