Cameron Crowe Quotes

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.

I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

I started as a print reporter.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with journalism.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.