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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. 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! I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had! I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country. I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly. 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. I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. 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. I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines! 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. My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. 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. 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. Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss? |
| Quotes About John Hughes |
| Quote:"He's very vulnerable. And I think he likes to write about young people because that's a real part of him. There's something open about him. There's something childlike about him. He likes to play. He likes to laugh." Who said/wrote it:ally sheedy Quote:"I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person," . "The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man. Who said/wrote it:Macaulay Culkin Quote:"I think the reason why I like working with John is that he really understands kids because he genuinely likes young people. He doesn't condescend to them. He treats us not like adults or kids, just as a person. He writes about kids in a really intelligent way. And he's a good person." I was stunned and incredibly sad to hear about the death of John Hughes. He was and will always be such an important part of my life. Who said/wrote it:molly ringwald Quote:He took a tremendous chance on me," . "Like Orson Welles, he was a boy wonder, a director's director, a writer's writer, a filmmaker's filmmaker. He was one of the giants Who said/wrote it:bill paxton Quote:I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family, Who said/wrote it:Matthew Broderick Quote:He changed my life forever," . "Nineteen years later, people from all over the world contact me telling me how much 'Home Alone' meant to them, their families, and their children Who said/wrote it:Devin Ratray ( Buzz McCallister in the "Home Alone" films) Quote:The flag's at half-mast," . "John Hughes, the man who spoke for geeks way before anyone else did." He's our generation's JD Salinger,". "He touched a generation and then the dude checked out." Who said/wrote it:kevin smith Quote:(Fields revealing that she once spoke to the director on the phone in 1997, several years after Hughes made his final film as a director, 1991's Curly Sue.) "We talked for an hour. It was the most wonderful phone call. It was the saddest phone call. It was a phone call I will never forget," "John told me about why he left Hollywood just a few years earlier. He was terrified of the impact it was having on his sons; he was scared it was going to cause them to lose perspective on what was important and what happiness meant. And he told me a sad story about how, a big reason behind his decision to give it all up was that "they" (Hollywood) had "killed" his friend, John Candy, by greedily working him too hard. "Tonight, when I heard the news that John had died, I cried. I cried hard. (And I'm crying again.) I cried for a man who loved his friends, who loved his family, who loved to write and for a man who took the time to make a little girl believe that, if she had something to say, someone would listen. Who said/wrote it:Alison Fields Quote:We'll never see his like again. He was the Wordsworth of the suburban America post-war generation. He was a great, great, great genius and as much of a friend and a great family man as he was a poet." Who said/wrote it:actor Ben Stein Quote:On the set, Hughes did not conceal his enthusiasm about your work, as some directors feel they must. I have worked on some comedy films where the director was the least funny person on the set. Hughes was funny Who said/wrote it:Alec Baldwin Quote: Who said/wrote it: |
