Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter and journalist. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 July 1957
CityPalm Springs, CA
CountryUnited States of America
song firsts kind
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
artist people interesting
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.
writing thinking voice
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.
writing memorable trying
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.
artist journey film
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.
believe writing
Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
dream writing artist
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.
baby sweet pain
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.
writing rocks age
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.
writing thinking degrees
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.
perspective
Time puts things in proper perspective.
america obsession success-and-failure
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
talking ideas energy
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
aloha sense-of-humor force
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.