- I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled "Action!" on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
- I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
- My generation had sucked up so much attention and here were these kids struggling for an identity. They were forgotten.
- When I did Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
- My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
- The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
- Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base. But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them. Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.
- I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw Doctor Zhivago (1965) every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
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