using actors that look their age. >> i think one of the mistakes commonly made in hollywood teenage pictures is, they're going for the bucks and not for the heart. >> i think he's honest and doesn't try to show us for something we're not. >> he took the simplest of canvases and ones we were all familiar with. >> bueller? >> growing up. >> bueller? >> staying home from school. the sneaky stuff we tried to pull off. >> life moves pretty fast. you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. >> john was obsessed with sort of the middle american outlook on life. there's no clearer expression of john's affection for what is a flawed society, but he loves it. >> all right, that's it. i'm going to be right outside those doors. the next time i have to come in here, i'm cracking skulls. >> he celebrated the normalcy in all of us. he made it bigger. he made detention an event. he made oddballs okay. >> we're all pretty bizarre.