You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

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.

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

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

Your imagination can create a reality

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...