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.
James CameronWe have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.
James CameronI probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.
James CameronWe have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.
James Cameron