If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

Rose: You're crazy. Jack: That's what everybody says but, with all due respect, Miss, I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here. Come on. C'mon, give me your hand. You don't want to do this.

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 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.