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If you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game, it's been around forever.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

When you have the feeling that anything's possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.

Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me ... in every way that a person can be saved

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly,

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

Your only competitors are your past achievements.

This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.

Failure is an option, fear is not.

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.

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

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

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

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space?

The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

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

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world.

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

You're so stupid, Rose! - Jack Dawson

Rose: You're trembling.
Jack: I'll be alright.

Nature's not our enemy, it's our sustenance; and we need it - and we need nature healthy for us to be healthy and to survive long term

There is a hugely underserved population out there ... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

I'm King Of The World!!!

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.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

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

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

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

That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

Your imagination can create a reality

If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success

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.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

A woman's heart is an ocean of deep secrets.

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.

Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.

Jack: Where to, Miss?
Rose: To the stars.

I am king of the world!

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

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

All my films are love stories,

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

I love you Jack.
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Jack, this is where we first met.

I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have. Kyle Reese in The Terminator

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I'd be inclined to mind my own business.

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

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

Max Guevara: Girls kick ass; says so on a t-shirt.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place,

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

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