Cameron Crowe Quotes

I've always kept my overhead low so I could do whatever I want. I think of myself as lazy with spurts of getting a lot done. I find myself rooting against things sometimes because I get excited at the thought of a clean slate.

Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

Whatever you want to do, go do it.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Don't 'take care', take a risk!

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didn't matter after that of before

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.

That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

I don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was "okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line." And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.