“You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.” PeopleKindLightCertainMarkCamerasBlock Author:Judd Nelson
“It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn.” WayWellsEndsPlayFilmCausesStrangeFlowRhythmCraftsOdd Author:Judd Nelson
“Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.” RealShotsClubsBreakfastSequenceRehearsal Author:Judd Nelson
“Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to be how movies were done. I didn't really know how lucky we all were. We had a director that liked actors. I didn't know that was going to be rare.” KnowsRealDoneActorsKnow HowLuckyDirectorsShotsClubsBreakfastSequenceRehearsal Author:Judd Nelson
“[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.” ThinkingFirstsLooksYoungLossSeeingFilmmakerGreat Loss Author:Judd Nelson
“[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others.” PeopleWantWellsLittlesMightSchoolYoungBitsSeriousLittle BitHigh SchoolSeriousnessColumbine Author:Judd Nelson
“[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.” RealWantedSoundMaterialsTruthfulMaterial ThingsCollaborators Author:Judd Nelson
“I remember Emilio [Estevez] and I were at John's house during the rehearsal process. And John [Huges] had mentioned he wrote the first draft of Breakfast Club in a weekend. And we both at the same time went, "First draft? How many do you have?" And John said he's got four other drafts. And we go, "Can we read them?" And for the next three hours, Emilio and I read those other four drafts.” FirstsSaidRememberThreeNextHouseProcessHoursFourClubsBreakfastWeekendRehearsal Author:Judd Nelson
“We [ with Emilio Estevez] asked if we could take some things [ in Breakfast Club] that weren't in the shooting draft, but from earlier drafts, "Can we maybe use this?" And Hughes was very amenable to all that. And there was some stuff that I liked, and I said, "How about this?" And he went, "Well, we'll check with Molly [Ringwald]. Those scenes are with her. And if she likes it, fine." So it was just wonderful. It was great.” IfsWellsSaidUseStuffWonderfulFineSceneClubsLikesChecksShootingBreakfastAmenable Author:Judd Nelson
“As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.” SchoolSpaceRoomsBuildingSittingBuiltEmptyTablesLibraryClubsDimensionsBreakfastGymRehearsalEmpty Rooms Author:Judd Nelson