American - Director | February 18, 1950 - August 6, 2009
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
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.
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When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
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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 it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
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I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
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I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
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A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
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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.
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My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
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If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.
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