Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.

I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f--ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.