Cameron Crowe Quotes

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I want to write, act, and direct!

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.