Cameron Crowe Quotes
All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I am a Buddhist.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
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All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?
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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
