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
miss sound time
I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.
atmosphere music
I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
greater helps hero literally process saves turns woman
Claire literally saves his life. And to me there's no better story to tell than how someone can process a knock. A hero is someone who turns their disappointment into a greater opportunity. This woman helps him on the path.
car cast driving everywhere floating good hudson ideas listening married mitchell music tapes
I married a musician, music is everywhere I turn, thankfully. Yeah, a lot of times the ideas for a movie, or even the way I cast a movie, comes from driving around in my car and listening to tapes and thinking, 'Kate Hudson floating on a Joni Mitchell song.' That's a good scene.
along bring desert five island past records
If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring?
cinematic hopefully
Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix,
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.
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.
middle near shooting somebody
I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
fiasco saw took
Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
bring
I told everyone I would bring (the movie) back,
orlando
I've done some of the same things that Orlando does in the movie, for sure,
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.
eyes tears turned
I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.