John Hughes Quotes

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.
John Hughes

Politics, Old, Put

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.
John Hughes

Off, Idea, Walk

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!
John Hughes

Music, Time, Social

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!
John Hughes

Time, Movies, Teen

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.
John Hughes

Forward, Point, Heroes

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.
John Hughes

Everything, Him, Young

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
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.
John Hughes

Work, Fun, Simple

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!
John Hughes

Time, Great, Christmas

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

Country, Leave, Movie

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

Human, Kids, Species

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.
John Hughes

Find, Kissing, Thin

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.
John Hughes

Time, Young, Fame

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.
John Hughes

Movies, Sad, Hate

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.
John Hughes

Business, Movies, Two

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

Music, Listen, Jazz

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.
John Hughes

Movies, School, Until

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.
John Hughes

Change, Important, Guess

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
John Hughes

Music, Live, Wanted

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

Since, Knew, Worked

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

Style, Early, Prose

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.
John Hughes

Change, Everything, Able

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.
John Hughes

Music, Best, Care

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

Music, Movies, Reason

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.
John Hughes

Time, Money, Dance

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Nationality: American

Born: February 18, 1950

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