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1. "At the time I came along, Hollywood's 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!" ~ John Hughes
2. "I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species." ~ John Hughes
3. "I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed." ~ John Hughes
4. "It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!" ~ John Hughes
5. "My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen." ~ John Hughes
6. "Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun." ~ John Hughes
7. "Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!" ~ John Hughes
8. "I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me." ~ John Hughes
9. "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." ~ John Hughes
10. "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." ~ John Hughes
11. "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." ~ John Hughes
12. "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." ~ John Hughes
13. "I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!" ~ John Hughes
14. "A nerd will be a nerd all his life." ~ John Hughes
15. "Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?" ~ John Hughes
16. "My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on." ~ John Hughes
17. "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." ~ John Hughes
18. "We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all." ~ John Hughes
19. "All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you." ~ John Hughes
20. "Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book." ~ John Hughes
21. "You don't spell it, son. You eat it." ~ John Hughes

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