If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

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

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

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

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