Cameron Crowe

I mean don't just walk in. You move across the room. And you don't talk to her. You use your face. You use your body. You use everything. That's what I do. I mean I just send out this vibe and I have personally found that women do respond. I mean, something happens.

That's the idea, Rat. That's the attitude.,

Yeah! The attitude dictates that you don't care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin'. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude.

All right, now pay attention. First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl.

"Oh, Debbie. Hi." Two, you always call the shots. "Kiss me. You won't regret it." Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?" Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice." And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.

I woke up in a great mood; I don't know what the hell happened.

I can see it all now, this is gonna be just like last summer. You fell in love with that girl at the Fotomat, you bought forty dollars worth of fuckin' film, and you never even talked to her. You don't even own a camera.

You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy.

I think I just came... didn't you feel it?

Look at you: member of the honor roll, assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater. I'm tellin' ya, Rat, if this girl can't smell your qualifications, then who needs her, right?

Can you honestly tell me you forgot? Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen?

It's never too soon, Rat. I mean, a girl decides how far she's gonna let you go in the first five minutes.

This is going to be great, Rat. It's like the highlight of their day.

What are you kidding? We're gunna surprise them. Look, just fix your collar, alright? Relax, just be cool, attitude, remember? Where'd you get that, outta the hamper?

Look Rat, it's like riding a bike. Fall off; you're right back on. Mess up a date, do it again.

Earth, Wind and Fire? Geez, eh, I haven't heard anything. But, the minute I do, I'll let you know.

So you failed. Alright you really failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You think I care about that? I do understand. You wanna be really great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling.

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one hand waving free.

Trust me. Everybody is less mysterious than they think they are.

Most of the sex I've had in my life was not as personal as that kiss.

Welcome to the annual meeting of people who annually meet, and we'll see ya'll next year.

I'm going to miss your lips. And everything attached to them.

You're an artist, man. Your job is to break through barriers. Not accept blame and bow and say thank you, I'm a loser, I'll go away now. Oh, Phil's mean to me, whaa, whaa, So what.

You want to be *really* great? Then have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make 'em wonder why you're still smiling. That's true greatness to me. But don't listen to me, I'm a Claire.

I don't know a lot about everything, but I do know a lot about the part of everything that I know, which is people.

To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music.

Some music needs air. Roll down your window.

Men see things in a box, and women see them in a round room.

What they say is, it will hit you, it could be ten minutes or it could be ten years from now.

I've spent so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem, that I forget what the problem *actually* was.

I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that's happened.

And so we all became helpers, which I so can't help. I can't help helping.

Life cannot be so cruel that we don't deserve to be together… to eat.

Never met a Mitch I didn't like. Fun, full of life. Like... everyone wants to be a part of Mitch's club.

No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy. A motto of the British Special Air Force is: 'Those who risk, win.' A single green vine shoot is able to grow through cement. The Pacific Northwestern salmon beats itself bloody on it's quest to travel hundreds of miles upstream against the current, with a single purpose, sex of course, but also... life

As somebody once said, there's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is simply the non-present of success. Any fool can accomplish failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. A fiasco is a folktale told to others, that makes other people feel more… alive. Because it didn't happen to them.

In that moment, I knew success, not greatness, was the only god the world served.

Because we have a moment here, let me tell you that I have recently become a secret connoisseur of 'last looks'. You know the way people look at you when they believe it's for the last time? I've started collecting these looks.

You know, there is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white! And this guy Ben, who clearly takes you for granted, who serially takes advantage of you, is bad! And what I'm saying is good! See what I mean? You shouldn't be the substitute for anybody. This guy should be right here, right now, doing this

And don't worry. Because as great as you look tonight, you are safe with me.

I've just recently decided that the things we know aren't black and white.

By the way, I didn't say 'million,' I said 'billion.' A billion dollars; that's a lot of million.

And they all know me, and I don't know any of them. And I've never seen a dead body before.

You're smart, you'll just wear your shoes and never ask any questions. Just enjoy your footwear.

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

She broke up with me. What do I do? Can she come back? How can I get her back? I can't - I can't get her to talk to me. It's all so fucked up. I feel like crying. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.

I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?

What I really want to do with my life - what I want to do for a living - is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it.

"Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."

How many of them really know what they want, though? I mean, a lot of them think they have to know, right? But inside they don't really know, so... I don't know ,but I know that I don't know.

Just knowing that a version like that exists, knowing that just for a minute she felt that and wrote "I can't help loving you". That has be a good thing.

One question: are you here 'cause you need someone, or 'cause you need me?… Forget it, I don't care.

Okay, how ya doing? I'm Lloyd, and we're gonna watch the movie "Cocoon." I've never actually seen it, but I heard it's very good, it makes you happy, thats a good thing. It's about a group of older people who go to outer space... hope I didnt give anything away there.

Except for one thing. I used to work at a smorgasbord and the old people would flock there and they love to eat. And they just jammed their mouths, you know, and they would just eat with their mouths open and, you know, it's just too much for me. I mean, you know, you get to be thinking about how short life is and how maybe everything has no meaning. Because, you wake up and you're frying burgers and you then you're like 60 and 70 and then, you know, you check out and, you know, what are you doing? And I just don't need to think about those kind of things. So, that - that's the reason I was - But, I'm not sure I'm right, about any of that.

I felt like I wanted to tell you something but I didn't put it in the letter. And, I didn't say it, but, I think I want to say it now. But I'm not sure if I should say it, you know. Because, people always say it but they don't mean it. But, I think that I mean it. So...

It's me. I'm cruising around. It's pretty late. You know, I haven't called you lately. I guess I didn't wanna be reminded of the Diane nightmare. By the way, I hardly remember her. I've wiped her from my mind. I don't remember when the time or place I knew her. This is it. The site of our controversial first date. I met her in a mall. I should've known our relationship was doomed. To our left, we have - the street where she broke up with me! And there's the path we took.

I think I know too many girls! You know, I should hang with more guys. I should be like one of those guys who hang at the AM-PM Gas 'n' Sip on Saturday. But, I don't know, do guys like that really know the answers?

Are you going to to go to that party at Vahlere's? Look, Diane, I'm sorry but I can't allow you to leave the country without going to Vahlere's graduation tonight. This gentleman is 22 and comes out of hiding once a year for this occasion and he dresses up as the Lakeside Rooster. And he makes this drink called the Purple Passion.

Hey, mom! It's Russell Hammond. I play guitar in Stillwater. Hey, how does it feel to be the mother of the greatest rock journalist we've met? Hello? Hello...? Look, you've got a really great kid here. There's nothing to worry about. We're taking good care of him, and you should come to the show sometime - join the circus...

From here on out, I'm only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in, from here on out.

Hey William, we showed you America. Did everything but get you laid.

You know, I think we both wanted to, uh, to be with her. I guess she wanted us to be together.

You, Aaron, are what it's all about. You're real. Your room is real. Your friends are real. Real, man, real. You know? Real. You're more important than all the silly machinery. Silly machinery. And you know it! In eleven years its going to be 1984, man. Think about that!

Oh, my God. Holy shit. Fuck! I grew up with that lampshade. I love this kitchen. I fucking love this kitchen!

They say you're dangerous. You see everything. Most people... are just waitin' to talk, but you listen.

I never said I was a golden god... or did I?

I grew up with these guys, but I can't play all that I can play. I'm past 'em, as musicians; but the more popular we get, the bigger their houses get, the more responsibilities, the pressure, you know - the harder it gets for me to walk out on them. What am I doing? I'm telling secrets to the *one* guy you don't tell secrets to.

Don't worry, no one's getting hurt here. She knows Leslie's coming to New York tomorrow. This is the circus, everybody's trying not to go home. Stop looking at me like that.

iI doesn't sound like music anymore, you know, it sounds like… lifestyle maintenance, or something.

Well, tell your friend, Miss Penny Lane, to call me. Tell her it ain't California without her. We want her around, like last summer. Say it just like that.

We play for the fans, not the critics.

Come on, man. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go find something *real*.