Filmmaking Quote by Molly Ringwald

There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.

— Jon Watts

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

— Martin Scorsese

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

— Joel Edgerton

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as…

— Alden Ehrenreich

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them…

— Judd Nelson

I so related to John Hughes movies.

— Marielle Heller

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

— Aimee Mullins

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

— Warren Beatty

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes…

— Joel Edgerton

John Hughes loved improvisers.

— Edie McClurg