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.

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

The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

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.

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

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.