John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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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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I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
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I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.
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What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
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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.
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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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We've seen a technical improvement lately, with the indexes breaking out of the recent downtrend. We think there's going to be an uptrend in the market through the end of the year, although it certainly won't be without hiccups.
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If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.
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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.