Famous Quotes

"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!"

John Hughes on Movies

More quotes about Movies

• "Film spectators are quiet vampires."

  Jim Morrison on Movies

• "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

  Johnny Depp on Movies

• "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

  Steve Martin on Movies

• "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

  Clint Eastwood on Movies

• "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

  Walt Disney on Movies

More quotes by John Hughes

• "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 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!"

• "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."

• "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."

• "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!"