Cameron Crowe Quotes
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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Can you honestly say the environments you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?
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People love to talk about themselves.
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All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.
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When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.
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The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot of time for no money trying to teach myself how to write a script. It always felt like everybody was looking the other way and sneaking that script through the system, but it did well later on video and got another chance.
