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 I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. ↗

— John Hughes

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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. ↗

— John Hughes

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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. ↗

— John Hughes

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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 how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

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I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. ↗

— John Hughes

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

— John Hughes

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

— John Hughes

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

— John Hughes

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

— John Hughes

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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 walk. ↗

— John Hughes

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