James Cameron Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

  James Cameron

  Writing, Character, Two

  "AVATAR Franchise Expanded to Three Sequels as James Cameron Recruits Co-Writers; AVATAR 2 Set for December 2016 Release" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. August 1, 2013.

• 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.

  James Cameron

  Children, Thinking, Waiting

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• All my films are love stories.

  James Cameron

  Stories, Love Story, Film

• 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

  Religious, Psychological Needs, People

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

  James Cameron

  Business, Giving, Film

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver.

  James Cameron

  Back When, Firsts, Film

• Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

  James Cameron

  Hard Work, Mind, Watches

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

  James Cameron

  Patterns, Film

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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.

  James Cameron

  Character, Purpose, Emotion

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

  James Cameron

  People, Answers, Saying No

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

  James Cameron

  Horse, Kings, Snakes

• Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.

  James Cameron

  Running, Decisions You Make, Objectivity

• Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

  James Cameron

  Consciousness, Film, Visceral

  "Producer James Cameron, Director Alister Grierson & Producer Andrew Wight Interview SANCTUM 3D MOBILE EXPERIENCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 5, 2011.

• 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

  Battle, Energy, Film

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

• I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.

  James Cameron

  Fun, People, Needs

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

• Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.

  James Cameron

  Taken, Civilization, Facts

• Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

  James Cameron

  Home, Cameras, Video

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