I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul. (Cameron Crowe)
This was not a navel-gazing experience. But it did feel like it was worth saying as a tribute to my father. I always equate it to music. Every once in a while, songwriters say, 'This one's more personal than the others.' So I figured, embrace it. (Cameron Crowe)
There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working. (Cameron Crowe)
Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat', (Cameron Crowe)
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America. (Cameron Crowe)
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. (Cameron Crowe)
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. (Cameron Crowe)
Kirsten is just wise beyond her years. (Cameron Crowe)
The question is where do we go from here The answer is -- life. (Cameron Crowe)
I sort of wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see so often in America. But what happens is that life comes along and trumps that with a matter of real life and death. (Cameron Crowe)
All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky. (Cameron Crowe)
People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. (Cameron Crowe)
Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters, (Cameron Crowe)
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. (Cameron Crowe)
And I'm always surprised at who's there when you fail, ... It's usually not the people you expect to be there. It's easy to have friends when you're winning. And Jerry Maguire was kind of about that. This was about that, but it's like success and failure get trumped by an even bigger issue, which is, 'Are you going to be truly alive, and do you even know what that is' (Cameron Crowe)