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
bench scenes sitting talk whatever
How many times have I thought of me sitting on a bench with him and me wriggling away from whatever he wanted to talk to me about. Sometimes you say you're going to write a story about that and sometimes it just arrives, and those scenes arrive.
dad learned loves married mom susan talking
She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... Susan said she learned more about how to play the part from talking to my mom than to me.
beginning felt presence
I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.
failure fiasco gone liked
I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.
mature maturity
She's an old soul. You will find her to be one of the more mature 23-year-olds on the planet.
certainly felt open
I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.
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.
orlando
I've done some of the same things that Orlando does in the movie, for sure,
adoring fate given gone good less people press public screening standing toronto
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.
fiasco saw took
Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
billy wilder
Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
cinematic hopefully
Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix,
alive arrived dad ends feeling grace happy listening love note simple
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.
dad side whimsical
The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.