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
call exploited gotta love music people rock sanctity song yours
It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed.
song believe writing
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.
song firsts kind
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
song powerful home
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.
song powerful writing
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
earn great griffin patty pick ride ryan songs sort
I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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',