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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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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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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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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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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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
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Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
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When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.
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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.
