A biography for John Hugheshasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“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.”
“I'd rather make music if I had the talent.”
“I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.”
“I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.”
“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.”
“If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.”
“I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.”
“I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.”
“At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!”
“The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.”
“Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?”
“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.”
“I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.”
“I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.”
“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.”
“A nerd will be a nerd all his life.”
“It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!”