Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

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.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.