Cameron Crowe Quotes
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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 love actors.
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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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I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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This is the type of publicity that a community our size just could not pay for.
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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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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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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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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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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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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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Optimism is a revolutionary act
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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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And I called her and gave her the job. And then I cast Orlando to her. He was like the kind of ingenue-discovery part and she was the established actor that I usually give the guy role to.
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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 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 try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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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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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'