Cameron Crowe Quotes
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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And I called her and gave her the job. And then I cast Orlando to her. He was like the kind of ingenue-discovery part and she was the established actor that I usually give the guy role to.
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I think that fate has a really good sense of humor, ... We had come from Toronto where people had given us a standing ovation, and the public screening had gone really well, but then afterward you hear, well, the press -- there was a less adoring reaction.
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Music is such an inspiration to me. I love it when it completes a story, along with the words and image.
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There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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This is the type of publicity that a community our size just could not pay for.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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Optimism is a revolutionary act
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I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.
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I loved her audition/work session. Her emotions were so close to the surface,
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I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.
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I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.
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I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
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I love the road trip. It was one of the original justifications to make the movie. So I want the movie to earn that road trip. And to me, that means calibrate it so that the fourth side of that double CD set is set up properly and it all makes sense.