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
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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.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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This is the type of publicity that a community our size just could not pay for.
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Ashton was one of the guys I talked to who I really liked.
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This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,
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The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.
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I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.
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I think that fate has a really good sense of humor, ... We had come from Toronto where people had given us a standing ovation, and the public screening had gone really well, but then afterward you hear, well, the press -- there was a less adoring reaction.
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People always complain that movies are all the same and that ticket buyers are voting and saying, 'No more,'
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It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.
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Life sends you angels sometimes when you're in need and, in my theory, it's usually never the people you expect to be there. They are often gone the people that appear with a piece of advice or something they want to give to you to help you through are generally surprising people and I wanted Kirsten's character to be that.
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I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
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I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,
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There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie. Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.