James Cameron

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.