John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
nice mean thinking
It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.
taste-in-music causes outcast
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!
music repeat whether
I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
bright filmmakers found immoral portray pursuits respect teenagers
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.
interest interested
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.
though
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
apart song work written
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.
audience best hear huge kid mix music sounds turned
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 lennon medium moved particular
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.
movies music reason
The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
music
I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
band believe lots money obviously pay people
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.
business camera movies train turned yelled
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.
script
If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.