John Hughes

I love writing. When I finish a script, it's a joy to sit down and go all the way through it. It's…

— John Hughes

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

— John Hughes

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

— John Hughes

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

— John Hughes

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because…

— John Hughes

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing,…

— John Hughes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not…

— John Hughes

I have a hundred things I'm dying to do. Make that a hundred and four. I'm going to write for a while.…

— John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

— John Hughes

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

— John Hughes

I can't deny people their art form. But you have to be challenged, and you have to meet that challenge.

— John Hughes

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the…

— John Hughes

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

— John Hughes

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…

— John Hughes

“You don't spell it, son. You eat it.”

— John Hughes

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out…

— John Hughes

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously…

— John Hughes

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then…

— John Hughes

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was…

— John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

— John Hughes

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk…

— John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked…

— John Hughes

I suppose it would be really alarming to an artist to play in a concert and see everybody just watching.

— John Hughes

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

— John Hughes

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because…

— John Hughes