“My experience with first-time directors is that they’re all extremely prepared, because I guess they’re worried. They spend weeks preparing everything, and they have to get used to the fact that once you get there, everything goes wrong and you have to make everything up.”

"Matthew Broderick on John Hughes, the Never-Finished Margaret, and His New Film Wonderful World" by Kyle Buchanan, in Movieline (7 January 2010) http://www.matthewbroderick.net/interview/movieline100107.html

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