81 Quotes by John Hughes

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.

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.

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

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.

When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all these stores and all these stations.' That isn't right.

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

My advice would be to be careful, to tread slowly here. A lot of what is rallying is the beaten-down tech stocks.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.