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Cameron Crowe

(1957) Screenwriter United States

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Cameron Crowe is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for Pearl Jam - twenty.

Quick Facts About Cameron Crowe

Born: July 13, 1957
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Pearl Jam - twenty
Spouse: Nancy Wilson

About Cameron Crowe

Cameron Bruce Crowe is an American filmmaker and journalist. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Grammy Award, and a Tony Award nomination. Crowe started his career in 1973 as a contributing editor and writer at Rolling Stone magazine, where he covered many rock bands on tour.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Quotes by Cameron Crowe · Page 3

Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say…

Cinema

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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent…

Another chance

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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing…

About

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“Look under your bed. It'll set you free. [Anita to her 11-yo brother William]”

Adolescence

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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…

Aisle

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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…

Being real

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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…

Age

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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.'

About

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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…

Audience

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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help…

Anxious

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I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just…

Actors

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The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment…

Able

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The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get…

Audience

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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't…

Cocaine

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RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox

Inspirational

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

Feels

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Cameron Crowe by topic

Writing (19) People (14) Music (11) Time (9) Movie (8)