81 Quotes by John Hughes

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

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.

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

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.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

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.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

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.

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.