“He had such fine hands, artists' hands, but strong too...roughened by work. I remember their touch even now.” — Titanic script
Titanic 1997 | dir. James Cameron
TITANIC (1997) When you love someone you cannot imagine an end to that love...that you won’t be reunited. I think this is a basic psychological need. Such a universal yearning is a poweful force to tap into. - James Cameron
1500 people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under it. There were 20 lifeboats floating nearby, and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the icy water; myself included. Six out of 1500. Afterwards, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but to wait. Wait to die. Wait to live. Wait for an absolution, but would not come until dawn.
It’s not up to you to save me, Jack. – Titanic (1997)
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. I don’t even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory. Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
TITANIC 1997 | dir. James Cameron
TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron
Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron
“I saw my whole life as if I’d already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared… or even noticed.”
Life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it.
TITANIC 1997, dir. James Cameron
“We had shot tests with a number of actresses. After several actresses, Kate Winslet came in. She gave her reading and I’m thinking: “If this isn’t Rose, I don’t know who is”. Besides being a great actress and seeming to possess the role of Rose from the first take on, she had a presence and a command for someone so young that made you think here was somebody solid all the way through and who was going to be consistent and there and true to form from day one to the very end. I remember when she left, you could look around the room and I think I looked over and I saw Rae Sanchini [executive producer] and you could see it in her eyes: “If this isn’t Rose, who is?” And there was a sense of… there she is. She has appeared. From that moment you felt, “wow, this is really going to be great.”
— Scott Carpenter [Titanic director of photography], Titanic Deluxe Collector’s Edition (audio commentary)
Now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me… in every way that a person can be saved. I don’t even have a picture of him. He exists now… only in my memory.
Titanic + objects: The Butterfly Comb