John Hughes Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.”

“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.”

“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 vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.”

“A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. 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.”

“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.”