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

~John Hughes

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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.

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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!

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

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

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

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I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

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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.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 18th, 1950

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