I love actors. Cameron Crowe More Quotes by Cameron Crowe More Quotes From Cameron Crowe 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. Cameron Crowe movie real inspiring Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. Cameron Crowe inspiration change opportunity Take it from your own life, write what you believe in. Cameron Crowe writing believe 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. Cameron Crowe hero heart character Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world. Cameron Crowe being-positive cynicism world Optimism is a revolutionary act Cameron Crowe optimism revolutionary 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. Cameron Crowe apology disappointment heart 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 powerful writing song 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. Cameron Crowe swimming race people 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 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 Time puts things in proper perspective. Cameron Crowe perspective 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. Cameron Crowe pain sweet baby 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 voice writing thinking 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. Cameron Crowe girl lonely hurt TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'. Cameron Crowe eye laughing people The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world. Cameron Crowe most-inspiring power-of-music world 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 work-out successful writing 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 chance writing trying I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that. Cameron Crowe kind song firsts
