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Cameron Crowe


Born
in Palm Springs, California, The United States
July 13, 1957

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Genre
Film & Television, Nonfiction


Cameron Bruce Crowe is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.

Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and void of cynicism. Michael Walker in the New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation" because his first few films focused on that specific age group, first as high schoolers and then as young adults making their way in the world.

Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a novel he wrote while posing for one year undercove ...more

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Average rating: 4.31 · 6,264 ratings · 587 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors
The Uncool: A Memoir
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Conversations with Wilder
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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Almost Famous
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Vanilla Sky
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The Film Makers
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Elizabethtown
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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.”
― Cameron Crowe
tags: coolness, friends, friendship, uncoolness
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“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”
― Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
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“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.”
― Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
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