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“ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. Don’t do it.

ROSE: I’m so cold.

JACK: You’re going to get out of this...you’re going to go on and you’re going to make babies and watch them grow and you’re going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here...Not this night. Do you understand me?

ROSE: I can’t feel my body.

JACK: Rose, listen to me. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I’m thankful, Rose. I’m thankful. You must do me this honor...promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...no matter how hopeless...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.

ROSE: I promise.

JACK: Never let go.

ROSE: I promise. I will never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.”
James Cameron, " Titanic " Script Book
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.”
James Cameron
“if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success”
James Cameron
“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.”
James Cameron
“A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.”
James Cameron, James Cameron's Titanic
“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.”
James Cameron
“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
This is crazy.
I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”
James Cameron, James Cameron's Titanic
“I'm King Of The World!!!”
James Cameron, James Cameron's Titanic
“Failure is an option, fear is not.”
James Cameron
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.”
James Cameron
“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
“Rose: You're trembling.
Jack: I'll be alright.”
James Cameron, James Cameron's Titanic
“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.”
James Cameron
“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”
James Cameron
“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!”
James Cameron, The Terminator
“You're so stupid, Rose! - Jack Dawson”
James Cameron
“Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.”
James Cameron
“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
“I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have." Kyle Reese in The Terminator”
James Cameron
“There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.”
James Cameron
“Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.”
James Cameron
“Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.”
James Cameron
“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”
James Cameron
“Jace: Feels like I just woke up from a bad dream.
Max Guevara: I know. One of the reasons why I don't sleep. Let me know if it's a boy or a girl.
Jace: Either way, name's gonna be Max.”
James Cameron
“I love you Jack.
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Jack, this is where we first met.”
james cameron
“Jake Sully: This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

from "Avatar”
James Francis Cameron
“Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.”
James Cameron
“Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.”
James Cameron
“Where, I wonder, should I have been over the long years across the world without the spasmodic, always unexpected, and totally reliable friendship of companions like Donald Wise, and Ralph Izzard, and Patrick O'Donovan, and David Holden, and Louis Heren, and Sam White, and Richard Scott, and René MacColl, and Stanley Uys, and Ted Levite, and David Walker, and Tim Baistow, and Stanley Burch, and a score more of their kind, at any moment liable to appear through the swing-doors of anywhere between Tuscaloosa and Tonkin and reduce chaos to the healing anodyne of a glass and the shared misfortunes of existence.
(On journalism in "Point of Departure" page 80)”
James Cameron
“NASA has this phrase that they like: ‘Failure is not an option.’ But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration, because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks. So, that’s the thought I would leave you with, is that in whatever you’re doing, failure is an option, but fear is not.”
James Cameron

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