Cameron Crowe Quotes
I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.
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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
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All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.
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I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
