"[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less."

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It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

— Tom Stoppard