Culture: RIP John Hughes, the guy responsible for every good ’80s film
- I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story. I like Mr. Everyman.
- Director and scribe John Hughes • On his body of work, which includes such mainstream masterpieces as “The Breakfast Club,” “Home Alone” (which he wrote but didn’t direct), “Sixteen Candles,” “Weird Science” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” amongst many others. All unbelievably mainstream, all incredibly memorable. Hughes died today of a heart attack. Bro was 59. Your childhood died with him, didn’t it Mr. Everyman? • source