Cameron Crowe Quotes (60 Quotes)

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.

I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

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

Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip,

I felt like I was seeing it with the audience it was made for,

I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.

I have a desire to work with some actors I really like, so I hope to get out there soon and be back at it - maybe a little less music in the next one.

I love the road trip. It was one of the original justifications to make the movie. So I want the movie to earn that road trip. And to me, that means calibrate it so that the fourth side of that double CD set is set up properly and it all makes sense.

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.