John Hughes Quotes

• The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

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• The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don’t care if you don’t hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

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• My early prose style – this is so embarrassing – was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

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• I’m from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

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• I stumbled into this business, I didn’t train for it. I yelled ‘Action!’ on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.

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• I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

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• I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

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• A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he’s just too young. He’s got the software but he doesn’t have the hardware yet.

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• A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

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• When I did ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn’t walk.

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• Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

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• When I go to a concert, I can’t believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

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• My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

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• My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.

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• It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.

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• It’s been about ten years since I’ve worked with actors who knew their lines!

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• I’m a former hippie, so clothes are important to me – your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I’m in my Brooks Brothers period now.

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• I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I’m done is write another one. Then I don’t feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

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• I like young actors because they’re so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

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• I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

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John Hughes (26)

Birth:	18th February, 1950
Death:	6th August, 2009
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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John Wilden Hughes Jr. was born in Lansing, Michigan, USA. He was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He studied at the University of Arizona. He dirceted several films include: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's Having a Baby, Uncle Buck, and Curly Sue. He produced several films include: Some Kind of Wonderful, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Home Alone, Career Opportunities, Curly Sue, Reach the Rock, and New Port South. He has written several films include: Class Reunion, Mr. Mom, National Lampoon's Vacation, Nate and Hayes, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, European Vacation, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She's Having a Baby, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Career Opportunities, Dutch, Curly Sue, Beethoven, Dennis the Menace, Reach the Rock, and Maid in Manhattan.

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