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All Quotes by author - John Hughes

" Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun. "

" At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! "

" Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie! "

" I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had! "

" I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it. "

" I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country. "

" I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. "

" I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right. "

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

" I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists. "

" I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. "

" Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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