Quotable Quotes about Titanic:
James Cameron: "Leonardo DiCaprio did something that rubbed me the wrong way: he sat there smoking a cigarette, slouching, as if the whole thing was too much trouble. I didn't think he was paying attention. Then he gets up there and he does the scene. And it was like, boom! He's the guy."
Kate Winslet: "He's probably the world's most beautiful-looking man, yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous, and to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo."
Kate Winslet (on acting with Leonardo DiCaprio): "We were really like brother and sister. There was never any of that 'I fancy you, do you fancy me?' Never."
Editor's Note: Fancy is British. It would translate to mean 'have a crush on' or 'like'.
Kate Winslet: "I was naked in front of Leonardo DiCaprio on his first day of shooting," confides Winslet. "It almost always happens that some of the most important scenes get shot at the very beginning when you're still getting to know each other," adds DiCaprio. "Kate is great. She had no shame with it. She wanted to break the ice a little bit beforehand so she flashed me. I wasn't prepared for that, so she had one up on me. It was pretty much comfortable after that."
James Cameron: "Luck was a major factor in casting Leo," Cameron say. "I just felt you would care about him a lot more. He has tremendous vitality on screen. Leo has a kind of wiry, survival quality about him that's pretty cool. As for Kate, there was such a luminous quality in her face, voice and eyes that I knew audiences would be ready to go the distance with her, which was critical because it's a hell of a journey and she's ultimately the person you're making that journey with."
Kate Winslet (about the character, Rose): "She's a very spirited girl," Winslet says. "She has a lot to give and a very open heart. She wants to explore the world but knows that's not going to happen. When we first meet her, there's a sense of resignation and despair about her. Then she meets Jack Dawson and an amazing love surfaces, which is based completely on trust and communication."
Leonardo DiCaprio (about the character, Jack): "Jack is a sort of wandering person," Leonardo DiCaprio says, "who seizes on the opportunities life presents to him. At a young age, I think he realizes how short life really is, and that's a big factor in who he is as a person."
Billy Zane: "Jack Dawson doesn't exist as far as my character, Cal Hockley, is concerned, at least not at first," Zane observes. "Except for servants, the lower classes were pretty much invisible to the super-rich denizens of Hockley's class."
Billy Zane: "The world of 1912 was on a precipice," Zane notes. "It marked extreme change in terms of social reform. You have the birth of a new era, embodied by Jack, who is kind of a reminder of the frontier spirit. Cal represents a more imperious sensibility that is flawed and collapsing."
Billy Zane: "Cal is the guy you love to hate," Zane smiles. "He's coming to terms with exactly what a relationship is all about. Cal's relationship with Rose is built more upon public appearance. She is a catch - a bauble - and there lies the root of the problem."
Winslet says, "I believe that this story does take you to the point where you would do anything you could to stop that ship from sinking in order for Rose and Jack to be together." Adds Cameron: "Every single moment that you're with them, there is this little voice in the back of your mind that's saying they're all doomed. This knowledge gives every moment Jack and Rose share an extra sense of poignancy."
James Cameron: "There's a startling fact that emerges from an analysis who lived and died on Titanic," Cameron says. "If you were a male in steerage-class, you stood about a one in 10 chance of surviving. If you were a first-class male, you stood about a 50/50 chance of surviving. If you were a first-class female, you stood virtually a 100% chance, and if you were a third-class female, you're chances were about 25%. In short, survival was largely a function of gender and class."
James Cameron: "We wanted to tell a fictional story within absolutely rigorous, historically accurate terms," Cameron says. "If something is known to have taken place, we do not violate it. Likewise, there's nothing that we show that could not have happened. Our fictitious characters are woven through the pylons of history in such a way that they could have been there. All the accuracy and all the special visual effects are intended for one purpose: the put the viewer on Titanic. It's a very you-are-there kind of experience."
James Cameron: "The tragedy of Titanic has assumed an almost mythic quality in our collective imagination," Cameron says. "But the passage of time has robbed it of its human face and vitality. I hope that Rose and Jack's relationship will be a kind of emotional lightning rod, if you will, allowing viewers to invest their minds and their hearts to make history come alive again."
"Their connection on an emotional level is what transforms Rose from this sort of Edwardian first-class geisha who is dying on the inside into this spirited young woman on the cusp of a new life," Cameron says about the young lovers. "Jack possesses this natural energy and purity of spirit which makes that transformation possible."
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