81 Quotes by John Hughes

You said you couldn’t believe in anyone who didn’t believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn’t believe in me.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

At the time I came along, Hollywoods 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!

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

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.