John Hughes
John Hughes
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
advice rallying slowly tech tread
My advice would be to be careful, to tread slowly here. A lot of what is rallying is the beaten-down tech stocks.
attract player style type
(Cregg) is the type of player and the style of player we want to attract at our club.
buying change good mean movement progress stocks
The buying is broad-based, and the movement in some of these stocks is significant, particularly for technology, ... I think we're making some good progress today. It could mean a change in tone.
listened music surf younger
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
angle driven example higher market positive stocks
This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up,
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.
expectation intel rally
The expectation is that Intel won't say anything good, so if they say something that's at least OK, I think you could see a little rally off of that,
became complacent technology
We became very complacent that technology was going to go up for ever,
days few generally next pessimism pleasant points positive rightly trend weeks year yesterday
There was a lot of pessimism at the end of the year and rightly so. So yesterday was a pleasant surprise. But after that kind of day, if we're down 20 or 50 points (on the Dow) today, I'm not worried. What you want to see over the next few days and weeks is generally a continuation of that positive trend on better volume.
business films gonna hit million plenty sold whether
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.
knew since ten worked
It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
geek guy hardware life maybe national nerd nerds picked school
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.
life
A nerd will be a nerd all his life.