John Hughes Quotes

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John Hughes

Profession : Director

Birth : February 18, 1950

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

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A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

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If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

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

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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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To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.

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I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

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

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I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

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

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When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all these stores and all these stations.' That isn't right.

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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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I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

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It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

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

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