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.

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

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.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

Optimism is a revolutionary act

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

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.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

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.

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.

RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

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

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

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

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.

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

We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

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