James Cameron Quotes

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

I can't be objective about my work, because I am so involved that I can't see it as a product to be judged. I can't see it as an outsider.

I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.