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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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.
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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.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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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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People always complain that movies are all the same and that ticket buyers are voting and saying, 'No more,'
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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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.
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Orlando was the first guy I thought of because we'd done a commercial together and I just liked him -- every take was different.
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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.'
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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.
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I wanted it to feel like a short story, but it's a long short story,
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Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,
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Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',