Cameron Crowe Quotes

"Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card."

"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."

"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."

"Little did I know that work-in-progress is a code for many things. In a press situation, it can mean the movie`s not going to come out. It can mean the movie`s not going to change at all, but if you don`t like it we`ll change it. Or it can mean the truth, which is it`s a work-in-progress."

"I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you`re going to get true eclectic music programmed."

"I just sort of fear that everybody does it now. Everything`s hip, every commercial`s hip. It almost makes you want to do a Mancini-type score, because nobody`s doing it. It would set itself apart more than a pop score now. So the goal was, in this movie, to try some different things." (on the score for Elizabethtown)

"You can`t blame the actor (for a film`s failure). It`s not math. It`s like catching lightning in a bottle." On Orlando Bloom and his role in Elizabethtown (2005).

"Stars arrive on their own timetable."

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody`s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.

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.

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

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.

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.

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.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

It`s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren`t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who`ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.