The battered idealist. It's ...

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.
 Cameron Crowe

Quotes from the same author

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
 Cameron Crowe
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.
 Cameron Crowe
I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
 Cameron Crowe