I don't look at scripts. I just write them. James Cameron More Quotes by James Cameron More Quotes From James Cameron Everybody's going to do the 3D slightly differently the same way that people are going to deal with color differently. Some movies downplay the color, some color is very vibrant. Color design is very different. We've got to think of 3D like color or like sound, as just part of the creative palette that we paint with and not some whole new thing that completely redefines the medium. James Cameron color people thinking I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap. James Cameron crap audience want I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. James Cameron design guy moving It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth. James Cameron long-ago simple way Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual. James Cameron psychological-needs religious people I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview] James Cameron strong character interesting I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D. James Cameron conversion fans The universe is like a giant bank vault lock, where the tumblers are constantly moving and once in a while the tumblers line up and you have to listen for the click. So you must be prepared in that moment to step through the door. James Cameron giants doors moving I am king of the world! James Cameron oscars kings world I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me. James Cameron film battle energy 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. James Cameron mean people ideas You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't. James Cameron environmentalist consuming animal 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. James Cameron actors giving long People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax. James Cameron real believe thinking Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world. James Cameron growing-up stress war 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. James Cameron epic character thinking The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water James Cameron ocean water way I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours James Cameron nightmare eight mean If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve. James Cameron beer pigs long Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being. James Cameron target rejection feelings
