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. John Hughes Read Quote
My early prose style – this is so embarrassing – was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen. John Hughes Read Quote
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes Read Quote
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz. John Hughes Read Quote
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script. John Hughes Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. John Hughes Read Quote
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 Read Quote