John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
geek guy hardware life maybe national nerd nerds picked school
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. 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.
human kids
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
cool
I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.
buying change good mean movement progress stocks
The buying is broad-based, and the movement in some of these stocks is significant, particularly for technology, ... I think we're making some good progress today. It could mean a change in tone.
action against backing building few filling hitting huge key levels move past pattern rally scale seeing seen technical weeks
I think the action we're seeing is constructive. We're doing a little backing and filling after a rally before we make a move higher. You're also hitting against some key technical levels here, ... There's not a huge rally building now, but we've seen a little pattern in the past few weeks of rally, scale back, and then continue, and we may see that again.
employment few impact intel missing numbers piece positive raised reaction stock weeks
Intel already raised their numbers a few weeks ago, so that won't have a big impact on trade, but the employment number could. It's the missing piece in the recovery, ... If you could get something positive from that number, you could see a stock reaction to the upside, or at least a continuation of what you've been seeing. If it's disappointing, you could see some selling.
prose woody
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
doctor high left obsessed opened saw until
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.
attract player style type
(Cregg) is the type of player and the style of player we want to attract at our club.
listened music surf younger
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
intrigue seldom
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
business films gonna hit million plenty sold whether
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.
angle driven example higher market positive stocks
This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up,
music
I'd rather make music if I had the talent.