James Cameron Biography

Born asJames Francis Cameron
Occup.Director
FromCanada
BornAugust 16, 1954
Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
Age69 years
James Cameron is a distinguished Canadian born American film director, manufacturer, film writer, and deep-sea traveler that has cemented his name in Hollywood as one of the most effective and also visionary filmmakers of his generation. He was born upon August 16, 1954, in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada.

Cameron invested a lot of his youth in Chippawa, Ontario, and also revealed passion in filmmaking from a very early age. He researched physics and also English at Fullerton College however left after 2 years to seek a job in the movie market.

He started his career doing various odd jobs on film collections, consisting of working as a truck driver and also production assistant. In 1978, he co-wrote and routed his very first movie, "Xenogenesis", which won the Best Science Fiction Film honor at the South Georgia Film Festival.

In 1984, Cameron routed as well as composed the movie script for "The Terminator", a film that became a massive box office hit as well as introduced his job. He followed it up with numerous other smash hits, including "Aliens", "The Abyss", "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", and also "True Lies".

In 1997, Cameron directed "Titanic", which came to be the highest-grossing film ever at the time and also won 11 Academy Awards, consisting of Best Picture and Best Director for Cameron. He obtained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998.

Cameron continued to push the borders of filmmaking with groundbreaking modern technology as well as aesthetic results. He routed the 2009 sci-fi epic "Avatar", which became the highest-grossing film ever before, surpassing "Titanic". He is presently servicing 4 follows up to "Avatar", set to be released from 2022 to 2028.

Apart from filmmaking, Cameron is likewise a passionate deep-sea explorer, and in 2012, he set a brand-new solo diving record by coming down 35,756 feet right into the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the sea.

Cameron has actually obtained various honors and also awards for his work, consisting of 3 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, and also a BAFTA Award. He has been married five times and has four youngsters.

Overall, James Cameron stays a trendsetter in both the film and exploration industries, as well as his works have actually transformed filmmaking, inspiring future generations of filmmakers to come.

Our collection contains 26 quotes who is written / told by James, under the main topic Travel.

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26 Famous quotes by James Cameron

Small: Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your fr
"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"
Small: My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer
"My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer"
Small: I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean
"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean"
Small: I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense b
"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots"
Small: What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?
"What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?"
Small: The magic doesnt come from within the directors mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors
"The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors"
Small: I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it ta
"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself"
Small: I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam
"I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away"
Small: I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth
"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth"
Small: The films that influenced me were so disparate that theres almost no pattern
"The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern"
Small: You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything
"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything"
Small: You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often theyll be much more quali
"You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself"
Small: I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and th
"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"
Small: I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it wa
"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism"
Small: I certainly didnt think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if y
"I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football"
Small: The film industry is about saying no to people, and inherently you cannot take no for an answer
"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer"
Small: If you wait until the right time to have a child youll die childless, and I think film making is very m
"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"
Small: There are many talented people who havent fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they
"There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith"
Small: Itll be all of our efforts together. It wont wont ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I
"It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group"
Small: I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed
"I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on"
Small: I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any se
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all"
Small: I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People dont understand that a wild
"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you"
Small: So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a soci
"So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world"
Small: There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the
"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest"
Small: It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have
"It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with"
Small: I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my fathers respect or inte
"I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things"