I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember. Cameron Crowe More Quotes by Cameron Crowe More Quotes From Cameron Crowe I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back. Cameron Crowe turns path feels 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 rolling-stones remember 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 strong song art I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. Cameron Crowe 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 film artist journey 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 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 cameras actors giving 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 matter writing people 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 artist dream writing 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 doe directors needs 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 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 feelings writing people 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 writing song believe And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them. Cameron Crowe energy talking ideas 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. Cameron Crowe degrees writing thinking Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. Cameron Crowe rocks age writing 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. Cameron Crowe powerful home song People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. Cameron Crowe closets might people Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success. Cameron Crowe love-of-my-life wife wish So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future. Cameron Crowe diversity stories helping
