Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Hughes Brothers



Albert and Allen Hughes, Filmmakers

(Allen Hughes) “The elements have to be right for us to make a movie. If there’s one personality off in that room and, you know, we’ll bow out gracefully. The material doesn’t speak to us on an emotional level - it can be an action movie, it can be great but, you know, it needs to speak to us.

And there will not be another nine years, but I can guarantee one thing, for me - and I’m sure Albert will agree - is that we’re connoisseurs of life. And in between each movie, we go out of our way to actually observe life and interact with real people. And we don’t live in the buffer zone of valet cars and lunches in Hollywood, this, that and the other. So, I think the movies will get better over time. They won’t get worse.”