Quotes by Cameron Crowe

About Cameron Crowe:

Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter and journalist. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

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Adolescence is a marketing tool.

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Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

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The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

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I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

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Stars arrive on their own timetable.

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'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.

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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

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I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.

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Author Bio

  • NameCameron Crowe
  • DescriptionAcademy Award-winning American writer and film director
  • BornJuly 13, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Actor; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Blogger
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay)