John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational motivational book
Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.
inspirational funny life
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
thanksgiving kids elbows
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.
became complacent technology
We became very complacent that technology was going to go up for ever,
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.
cool
I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.
human kids
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
hardware
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.
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.