Cameron Crowe Quotes

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

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  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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• Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

  Cameron Crowe

  Change, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.

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  Hero, Heart, Character

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• Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

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  Believe, Writing

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

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  Being Positive, World, Cynicism

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2000.

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• Optimism is a revolutionary act

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  Optimism, Revolutionary

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• The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

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  Aloha, Sense Of Humor, Force

  "Aloha". www.imdb.com. May 27, 2015.

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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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  Swimming, Race, People

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• The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.

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  Song, Art, Strong

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

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  Song, Firsts, Kind

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe Opens Up About His Life, Career, and Elizabethtown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Time puts things in proper perspective.

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  Perspective

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• And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

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  Talking, Ideas, Energy

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• You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.

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  Baby, Sweet, Pain

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• I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

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  Song, Powerful, Writing

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

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  Memorable, Writing, Trying

  "Director Cameron Crowe Talks WE BOUGHT A ZOO, His Upcoming Documentary THE UNION, His Next Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

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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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  Dream, Writing, Artist

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

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  Song, Believe, Writing

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe Opens Up About His Life, Career, and Elizabethtown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 12, 2005.

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• I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

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  Disappointment, Heart, Apology

  "Cameron Crowe apologises for casting Emma Stone as 'part-Asian' in Aloha" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

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  Writing, Thinking, Degrees

  "Cameron Crowe for “Elizabethtown”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. September 27, 2005.

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• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

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  People, Might, Closets

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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

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  Song, Powerful, Home

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• I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

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  Girl, Lonely, Hurt

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• The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

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  World, Most Inspiring, Power Of Music

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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• Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.

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  Writing, People, Feelings

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Crowe Opens Up About His Life, Career, and Elizabethtown". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 12, 2005.

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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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  Path, Turns, Feels

  "Cameron Crowe Talks PEARL JAM TWENTY, WE BOUGHT A ZOO and a SAY ANYTHING SEQUEL?! Says Jónsi From Sigur Rós Is Doing ZOO Score". collider.com. July 31, 2011.

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