Cameron Crowe

“I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.”

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

“People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.”

“I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.”

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

“Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.”

“Stars arrive on their own timetable.”

“I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love actors.”

“'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.”

“Time puts things in proper perspective.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.”

“Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.”

“I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.”

“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.”