John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

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

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

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.