“I was in a doctor’s office yesterday, and he said, ‘Oh, that movie! The dialogue!’ And I said, ‘Wait a minute. You have to judge this for what it is.’ James Cameron made a brilliant stroke when he made the choice to build the story around Romeo and Juliet. That’s what equals a billion dollars. Plus, he individually sat over the equivalent of the D-Day invasion — that’s how complicated it would be to photograph what we saw. I had a wonderful time, and I’ve got to hand him 110 percent credit.”
— John Cunningham (Captain E.J. Smith)
“I remember seeing the preview for the first time. I was just riveted, clutching my seat, because it was the first time I’d seen all the things that were in my head. The effects were so dazzling and so real.”
— Brian d’Arcy James (Stoker Frederick Barrett)
“I loved seeing three-dimensionally what I’d only seen in pictures or read about — the state rooms and so forth. I wasn’t a huge fan of the love story.”
— Susan Green (Production Stage Manager)
“I was pleased to see the scope of it, to see people moving through that three-dimensional world. I did my research from microfilm at the New York Public Library, so it was very powerful for me to see people moving through the ship, and to see how incredibly huge it was. The movie was like watching parts of our family — faces we didn’t recognize, but people we knew
everything about.”
— Victoria Clark (Passenger Alice Beane)
“I was daunted and awed by the technology. I cared less for the soap opera, but I know too much [about the Titanic], so it isn’t fair to ask me. I saw the movie at 10:30 on a Sunday morning, and my first inclination afterwards was to go right to the Lunt and see ours, too. I really do think the movie has helped prepare people for a theatrical rendering of the story.”
— Michael David (Producer)
“I felt there were a couple of different movies going on, and I liked one of them a lot, the one about the real story. I think the real story is much more compelling than anything you could dream up.”
— David Garrison (Owner J. Bruce Ismay)