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James Cameron Biography

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian director, writer, producer, editor, and deep-sea explorer. After working in special effects, he found major success after directing and writing the science fiction action film The Terminator (1984). He then became a popular Hollywood director and was hired to write and direct Aliens (1986); three years later he followed up with The Abyss (1989). He found further critical acclaim for his use of special effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). After his film True Lies (1994), Cameron took on his biggest film at the time, Titanic (1997), which earned him Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing.

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

Artist, Electrical, Father, Housewife, Mother

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

Energy, Lead In, Renewable, World

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

Gift, Jumped, People, Rose, See, Titanic Movie

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.

Dream, People, Leap Of Faith, Faith, Thought, Make

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

Forest, Forests, Pushes, Slowly, Snakes, World

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Inspiration, Inspirations, Party, Remember, Talking

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

Average, Broader, Details, Fans, Lay, Take

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

Luck, Strategy, Factors, Fear, Factor

Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

Character, Emotion, Making, Purpose, Terminator, Terrified

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

Evil, Long, Loss

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

Responsibility, Reality, Generations, Truth, Accept, Generation

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

Agreement, Mean, Millions, Successful, Takes, Time

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

Would Be, Shots, Studios, Shot, Camcorder, Everything

I don't feel that I'm making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch movie 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.

Character, Epic, Iphone, Making, Thinking, Watch

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.

Already, Convince, Harvest, Ideas, Mean, People

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me. . . in every way that a person can be saved

Man, Men, Person, Rose, Way

I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

Mistake, Goal, Levels, High, Begin, Motivated

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

Blue, Established, Hollywood, Like, People

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

Average, Generations, Reading, Science, Sort, Writing

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

New York, Short, Short Love, Travel, Trips, York

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