Famous quotes by James Cameron:

"Clearly their business was not highly impacted by it,"

"[Gates] said, 'You know, let's be partners in this. Let's figure this out so that it is done sanely.'"

"Bill has come down to Hollywood to make this announcement, and that is a first,"

"Aliens of the Deep."

"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."

"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?"

"What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?"

"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"

"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth"

"The film industry is about saying ‘no’ to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer."

"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."

"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."

"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."

"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer."

"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer."

"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."

"The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern."

"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."

"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."

"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."