Cameron Crowe Quotes

"The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are."
-Cameron Crowe

"The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life."
-Cameron Crowe

"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."
-Cameron Crowe

"I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America."
-Cameron Crowe

"Life sends you angels sometimes when you're in need and, in my theory, it's usually never the people you expect to be there, ... They are often gone the people that appear with a piece of advice or something they want to give to you to help you through are generally surprising people and I wanted Kirsten's character to be that."
-Cameron Crowe

"Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip."
-Cameron Crowe

"The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place."
-Cameron Crowe

"I liked the idea of beginning our movie with death, the place most movies end."
-Cameron Crowe