Cameron Crowe Quotes
I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.
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I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.
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Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
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I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.
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I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.
