John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

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

When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.