John Hughes Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american director John Hughes on topics like movies, movie, people

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

    — John Hughes on close
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  • I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler;

    they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

    — John Hughes on taste
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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 on brooks
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  • I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

    — John Hughes on country
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  • I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

    — John Hughes on kissing
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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.

    — John Hughes on band
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  • 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.

    — John Hughes on baby
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  • It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

    — John Hughes on knew
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  • 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.

    — John Hughes on time
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  • At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

    — John Hughes on gross
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  • 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.

    — John Hughes on movies
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  • My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

    — John Hughes on comfortable
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  • About John Hughes

    Name John Hughes
    Quotes 16 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Director
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics movies, movie, people, actors, guess
  • 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 on elbows
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  • Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

    — John Hughes on break
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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.

    — John Hughes on advertising
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  • 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 on desperately
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