Cameron Crowe Quotes

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.

Some films will work, some won't.

When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

The success of a film is always a combination of many people's efforts.

When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

I still consider 'Vaastav' and Raj Kumar Santoshi's 'Pukar' two of my better films, though I admit nothing great happened thereafter.

Sometimes critics disagree with the audience, and that's fine. I make movies for the audience. I guess I hope that the critics like it, but on the other hand, I just really want the audience to like it.

I don't see anything wrong with my films in 2016, except maybe 'Kadalai' and 'Parandhu Sella Vaa.' I did do a lot of different roles.

Taking chances is my job; some will connect and some won't, and certain films find their audiences in different ways. I think 'Spotlight' probably is a better movie because of 'The Cobbler.' You learn with every movie you make: you learn from your mistakes, and you learn from your achievements, and I really do have that approach to filmmaking.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

You go to the edit room and see one scene which has come out fantastically, and you feel the film will set records. By evening, you look at the budget figures or something that hasn't worked out and ask yourself - what if this doesn't work?

You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your head, and you shoot it, and it'll always change from what you started out. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes it turns out; I don't know, but as movies go I've never experienced seeing and likening what I've read, and I liked what I read.