"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it."
13 likes
Source: John Hughes: In Memory by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. August 6, 2009.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by John Hughes
"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!"
"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."
"People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions."
"Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex."
"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!"