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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

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James Cameron
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: August 14
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I don't look at scripts. I just write them.
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It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
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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.
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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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There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
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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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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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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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I am king of the world!
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With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.
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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.
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If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.
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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.
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It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.
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