I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money’s worth out of that eight hours.
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 quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water.
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 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.
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they’ll crystallize into a pattern.
The universe is like a giant bank vault lock, where the tumblers are constantly moving and once in a while the tumblers line up and you have to listen for the click. So you must be prepared in that moment to step through the door.
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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.
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.
Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.
I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
You can’t really call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still consuming animals. You just can’t.
That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.
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 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.
Your only competitors are your past achievements.
The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.
I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.