List of Cameron Crowe Quotes

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I'm Impossible To Forget, But I'm Hard To Remember.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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 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.

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 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.

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.