John Hughes

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

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

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

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

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

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

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

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.