Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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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 obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
John Hughes loved improvisers.
I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.
I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
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