John Hughes Quotes

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• 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…
• When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't…
• 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…
• Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.
• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
• We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.
• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person…
• I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
• What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
• I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.
• Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
• My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such…
• 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…
• Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for…
• I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
• The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
• A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
• My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
• At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit…
• Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a…

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