John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
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The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
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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.
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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
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I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
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I'd rather make music if I had the talent.
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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!
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The expectation is that Intel won't say anything good, so if they say something that's at least OK, I think you could see a little rally off of that,
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We became very complacent that technology was going to go up for ever,
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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.
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A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
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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.
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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.