Cameron Crowe

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

I love actors. ”

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper. ”

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. ”