Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened – but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that writers, including directors, often draw inspiration from their own experiences and personal lives when creating their projects. This means that the movies or stories they make tend to reflect their own thoughts, feelings, and memories to some degree. However, the director's favorite films are usually the ones that feel more personal and connected to the filmmaker's own life.
About Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe is an acclaimed American filmmaker and journalist who has won numerous awards, including an Oscar, for his work on films like “Almost Famous” and “Jerry Maguire.” He began his career as a teen writer for Rolling Stone magazine, covering rock bands on tour, and later transitioned into screenwriting and directing, helming a variety of acclaimed movies over the years.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened – but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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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.
American filmmaker
People dance and we have a lot of music and… this might be the closet I get for a while.
American filmmaker
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
American filmmaker
Time puts things in proper perspective.
American filmmaker
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
American filmmaker
It’s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren’t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who’ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
American filmmaker