Crazy for Crowe

THANK you so much for Cameron Crowe’s “Moviemaking, From the Soundtrack Up” (Sept. 25). As I am only a 15-year-old girl, many people think I am crazy when I listen to a song and say, “This should be in a movie.” I tell people I want to be a director, and they laugh, telling me that I can’t possibly know what I want to do with my life at this age. I just laugh back and say, “You don’t know me.”

When I plug into my iPod and stare out the window, or take a walk, or pause in a hall at school, a story will instantly pop into my head. These songs and mini-experiences throughout my day are what inspire my creative juices that I use to make little movies.

It’s nice to know that I’m not crazy for making a 10-minute movie out of a verse of one song.

ALEXANDRA LABELLE

Coto de Caza

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CAMERON CROWE allows that “Everybody’s Talkin’ ” wasn’t “technically written” for “Midnight Cowboy.” But he fails to explain that director John Schlesinger first heard the Harry Nilsson record when disc jockey Johnny Magnus played it on KMPC. Therefore, it doesn’t belong among those original songs Crowe claims were “written specifically for the movie.”

HARVEY GELLER

Tarzana