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John Hughes [1950-0] American

Rank: 101
Director, Film director

John Wilden Hughes, Jr. was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and/or scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the comedy National Lampoon's Vacation, the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, the teen sci-fi comedy Weird Science, the coming-of-age comedy-drama The Breakfast Club, the coming-of-age comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the romantic comedy-drama Pretty in Pink, the romance Some Kind of Wonderful, the comedies Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck, the Christmas family comedy Home Alone and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Movies, Cool, Music, Sad, Christmas, Politics, Respect, Teen, Thanksgiving

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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.		101
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.		102
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!	Movies, Teen	103
I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.	Music	104
Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?		105
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.	Movies, Sad	106
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!	Cool, Music	107
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.	Respect	108
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.		109
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.		110
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.		111
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.	Politics, Thanksgiving	112
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.		113
People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.		114
I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.	Cool	115
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.		116
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.		117
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.		118
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.	Movies	119
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.		120
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.		121
I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.		122
A nerd will be a nerd all his life.		123
I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.		124
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!	Christmas	125
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.		126
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.		201
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.		202
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.		203
The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.		204
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.		205
I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.		206
If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.		207
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.		208
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. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.	Sad	209
I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.		210
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.		211
It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!		212
I'd rather make music if I had the talent.		213
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.		214

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