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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

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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.

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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

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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.

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

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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.

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I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.

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

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The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 18th, 1950

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