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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.