We spent several weeks breaking story and figuring out what type of story we wanted to tell so we would have something to pitch Linda( Hamilton, aka Sarah Connor), when we got a handle on something, we looked at it as a three-film arc, so there is a greater story there to be told.

James Cameron

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Climate change is critical to me because I'm a parent; I feel a sense of responsibility to the future. I'm not going to be around to see its worst effects, which are going to be hitting in the 2030s, '40s, '50s, but my kids will.

James Cameron

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

James Cameron

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You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.

James Cameron

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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.

James Cameron

brain running ideas

I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have seen it on the small screen. They want to have that immersive, transportive experience. "2001: A Space Odyssey" played for three years at the Loews cinema in Toronto. I remember that. It just kept playing. People wanted to return to that experience. That may not be the best example because I think "2001" took 25 years to break even.

James Cameron

break-even unique thinking

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.

James Cameron

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Ladies and gentlemen.. You're not in Kansas anymore!

James Cameron

If we get fortunate enough to make some money with' Dark Fate' we know exactly where we can go with the subsequent films.

James Cameron

entertainment

Everybodys always whining about how long its taking Avatar to get done.

James Cameron

entertainment

The film is about death and separation; he had to die, so whether it was that, or whether a smoke stack fell on him, he was going down. Its called art, things happen for artistic reasons, not for physics reasons.

James Cameron

entertainment

It's in that battle-cruiser class of budgets, there's no question about it so, yeah, the stakes are high, if people show up we're definitely going to do at least one more if not two. It's mapped out for three in total.

James Cameron

entertainment

Directors are historically pretty oblivious to the interpersonal things on their set, being so focused on what they’re doing creatively, the fact that this was happening under our noses and we did n’t know about it...

James Cameron

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I was happy to continue with some of the forensic stuff we had never really resolved, so we decided that the framework of the documentary would be, ‘What did we get right and what did we get wrong?’.

James Cameron

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Obviously it was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him.

James Cameron

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Yeah, you got to ask yourself, ‘Why did they make these characters look and sound like Arnold?’ There has to be a reason, so yeah, it has flashed through my mind that there has to have been a prototype.

James Cameron

entertainment

In March next year, I am shooting 'Terminator 6.' James Cameron and (producer) David Ellison are back on board.

James Cameron

entertainment

I think there are huge possibilities for combining the interests.

James Cameron

environment

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

James Cameron

returning others story tell

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

James Cameron

human own nature imagination

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

James Cameron

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