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
journey leads music road
Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.
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.
journey emotional years
We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
mix name obvious stuff tape
And yeah, she would put 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.
commercial guy liked orlando together
Orlando was the first guy I thought of because we'd done a commercial together and I just liked him -- every take was different.
along beginning defining life success
Orlando's character, at the beginning of the movie, is defining success and failure. But then life comes along and trumps that.
billy wilder
Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
believe happened later oddly people personal stuff wondered
The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
short
I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,
mostly shoe success
Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,
bum minutes picture wilder
Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
american-director gone laughter sad start tears wonder
I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
felt
It felt like a faraway place that was still home,
american-director bigger both expect kinds movies scale smaller
Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.