John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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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(Cregg) is the type of player and the style of player we want to attract at our club.
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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.
intrigue seldom
I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.
prose woody
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
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My advice would be to be careful, to tread slowly here. A lot of what is rallying is the beaten-down tech stocks.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
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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.
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The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
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We've seen a technical improvement lately, with the indexes breaking out of the recent downtrend. We think there's going to be an uptrend in the market through the end of the year, although it certainly won't be without hiccups.
script
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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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.
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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.