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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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Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.
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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.
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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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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
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Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
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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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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.
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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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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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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
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Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
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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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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.
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I don't look at scripts. I just write them.
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What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
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We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.
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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.
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Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
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I don’t feel that I’m making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I’m not going to stop them, especially if they’re paying for it, but I don’t recommend it. I think it’s dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they’re not visible. I’m trying to make an epic.
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