Cameron Crowe Quotes

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.

I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

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.

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.

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.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes.

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

Look at this - an entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper.

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

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.

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.

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

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

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

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.

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

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

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.

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.

'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.

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.

It's all happening!

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.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.

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

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

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'