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Cameron Crowe Biography

Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.

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TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes,. . And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.

Eye, Greatest, Laughing, Longest, People, Yard

Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

Believe, Life, Take, Write, Writing

I remember that, before John Lennon died, everyone was saying that Rolling Stone couldn't do good reporting anymore. But when he died, they wrote this amazing issue, as they should have about Lennon. They did that when Elvis died, too.

Good, Issue, Remember, Rolling Stones, Stone

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

Energy, Idea, Ideas, Talking, Whole

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.

Artist, Film, Journey, Read, Same

Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.

Good, Matters, Personally, Thinking, Voice, Writing

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Act, Optimism, Revolutionary

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.

Express, Feelings, People, Person, Writing

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.

Make, Memorable, Says, Trying, Way, Writing

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

Being Positive, Cynicism, Positive, Succumb, World

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

Earn, Movies, Powerful, Song, Write, Writing

We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

Band, Emotional, Felt, Journey, Like, Years

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.

Aware, Director, Directors, Doe, Good, Needs

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

Firsts, Kind, Loved, Song, Songs, Wrote

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.

Director, Everybody, Inspiring, Make, Movie, Real

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.

Diversity, Helping, Hungry, Stories, Truth

I try and direct environmentally. So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Action, Direct, Happens, People, Race, Swimming

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Perspective, Proper, Things, Time

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

Closet, Closets, Might, Music, People

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

Back, Feels, Music, Path, Turn, Turns

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