Latest Cameron Crowe Quotes from Interviews

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• Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Successful, Work Out

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.

  Cameron Crowe

  Smart, Party, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. 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. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.

  Cameron Crowe

  Rap, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Trying, Chance

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

  Cameron Crowe

  Remember, Rolling Stones

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

  Cameron Crowe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  Directors, Doe, Needs

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

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

  Cameron Crowe

  Believe, Writing

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

• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

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

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Believe, Writing

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

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

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Firsts, Kind

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

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, People, Feelings

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

• You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, People, Matter

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

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

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

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

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

• I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

• When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, Journey, Film

  "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.

• 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.

  Cameron Crowe

  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.

• I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.

  Cameron Crowe

  Giving, Cameras, Actors

  "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.

• Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "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.