Cameron Crowe Quotes

 "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "Take it from your own life, write what you believe in." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "Time puts things in proper perspective." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable." ~ Cameron Crowe

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

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

 "You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "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." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "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." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "Many people don't have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act." ~ Cameron Crowe

 "So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future." ~ Cameron Crowe