American - Director | July 13, 1957 -
Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Cameron Crowe
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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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.
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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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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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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.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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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.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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