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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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
