James Cameron Quotes

“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

“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbed hair, gloves and a demure frock – blankly masturbates in an audience of writhing lesbians, Manson’s image reflected in her heart-shaped glasses. I wanted to like the song, but found Manson’s threadbare voice and overdubbed music annoying, and the chorus - 'Don’t break my heart/and I won’t break your heart-shaped glasses' – suggested a pugilistic retribution ('Dump me, and I’ll punch your lights out!') more in keeping with Norman Mailer than Nabokov.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

“However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.”
― Anupama Chopra

“The Titan's Fall by Stewart Stafford

Colossus ship of the Titans,
Flames of Tartarus in its belly,
Unsinkable beneath the stars,
Champagne popped too soon.

In infinite glacial hubris,
Collided with its own ambition,
Immortal Gordian Knot slashed,
And freezing death crept aboard.

Cantering up Scotland Road,
Trojan Seahorse's Achilles' Heel,
Solitary children drowning,
In heartbroken submersion.

The River Styx fell silent,
But for whimpered prayers.
As Charon's boat of death,
Ferried them to Hades.

The tangled Medusan wreckage,
Once a great wonder of the earth,
Plunged into an underworld abyss -
A terrible beauty on the seabed nests.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford