Cameron Crowe Quotes: Billy Wilder once told me, ‘Make ’em…

Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'

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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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Life sends you angels sometimes when you're in need and, in my theory, it's usually never the people you expect to be there, ... They are often gone the people that appear with a piece of advice or something they want to give to you to help you through are generally surprising people and I wanted Kirsten's character to be that.
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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.
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

Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
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And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
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