Had the pleasure of meeting him once in a bookstore close to his home in 1987 and he took 15 minutes out of his time to talk to me about film making ( I was a film student at Columbia at the time). he told me he had never been on a movie set before Sixteen Candles and didn't know the first thing about directing. But he still gave me the BEST piece of advice I think I've ever gotten. He told me " Don't get bogged down in the technicalities of film making, rely on the experience of your crew for that. Focus instead on your story and characters because a film might be poorly shot but if it's well written the audience wont know and better still, they won't care".... R.I.P John....
Then I guess I'm twice as lucky. Ran into him again about 3 years before his death standing in line at Best Buy. I said hello but he appeared to be in a hurry so I didn't bother him this time. Again. No one other than me seemed to recognize him.@@thelovelyone1582
Thanks for uploading! And for including the 'outtakes' where the interviewer redoes her questions and reaction shots (so they can edit it seemlessly later) is fascinating too.
I feel like John Hughes didn't get the opportunity to do enough interviews about himself and his life. I really hate that we never really got to know him.
Sadly, John passed away much too soon. We were robbed of the 3rd Act to his film career. He left behind so many unproduced screenplays that will never see the light of day. On top of which, we were all hoping for another great teen film! Thankfully, though, we have a myriad films to chose from whenever we want to remember this legend. Goodnight, funny man!
He was done with directing after Curly Sue. He was concentrating on producing, so I don't see why any of those screenplays you're talking about couldn't have been made then or even now.
@@chiefscheider not now because his family owns the rights to most of his scripts and they aren't letting anyone film them. And as for why they weren't made back then...the industry changed to where no one was making teen films any more. After Home Alone, Hollywood was making more family films because they made money. Also, if you listen to people like Howard Deutch, John had become very disillusioned by the movie business. He lived out in the Chicago suburbs with his family always writing and some times producing but not wanting to direct any more. And by the time he wanted to start directing again, I know this...he had two or three scripts he wrote for John Candy alone that they were going to do, but when Candy died he put them in a drawer because they were for John. And then, in the late 90s when teen films started to be made again, John wrote and produced Reach The Rock that was barely released and another teen film called Tickets he couldn't get made (a good script actually) and in 2000, John brought the rights to the book The Perks of Being A Wallflower. He was going to write, produce and direct it. However, in the 5 years that he had the project, he couldn't get it off the ground. Amazingly, the novelist of that book was eventually able to write & direct his own version which was better than anything John would have made (in my opinion). The fact that John purchased the film rights to someone else's work that he was going to write, produce and direct might tell you something. There were a lot of reasons why his scripts weren't made then and can't be made now, but I think the biggest reason is because he stopped directing his own material and the material that was being made (Baby's Day Out, Just Visiting, Flubber) didn't score as well with filmgoers. *some of his scripts, that studios owned, were rewritten and made like Drillbit Taylor, Blades of Glory and Maid in Manhatten, before his death.
This one definitely seemed to have one foot in the National Lampoon and Animal House era of movie comedy before Hughes got to something more original. Ferris Bueller was really Hughes' breakthrough where the Rooney subplot ended up inventing a whole new comedic genre, that of the home invader or criminal getting his butt kicked in a slapstick manner, which would evolve into Hughes' biggest commercial success in Home Alone and then define most of his 1990s work.
A sick dude. But great films. Got away with a lot. And of course his job is easy. He just letting people act and writing a script about kids hanging aroung with kids. The gift and the curse. Very talented. Not missed tho.
@@THEBYGONE john huges isn't this about John hughes the same grown men who Molly Ringwald mother had to fight with him cause he had it in the script she should show her panties? A 16 year old? Is this the same john hughes are a different one
![John Hughes/Matthew Broderick/Jennifer Grey- Interview (Ferris Bueller) 1986 [RITY Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qRkA42lDyls/mqdefault.jpg)
Ty for your films and art John. RIP
Had the pleasure of meeting him once in a bookstore close to his home in 1987 and he took 15 minutes out of his time to talk to me about film making ( I was a film student at Columbia at the time). he told me he had never been on a movie set before Sixteen Candles and didn't know the first thing about directing. But he still gave me the BEST piece of advice I think I've ever gotten. He told me " Don't get bogged down in the technicalities of film making, rely on the experience of your crew for that. Focus instead on your story and characters because a film might be poorly shot but if it's well written the audience wont know and better still, they won't care".... R.I.P John....
Thank you for sharing this.
You are considered one of the lucky few to have met this man
Then I guess I'm twice as lucky. Ran into him again about 3 years before his death standing in line at Best Buy. I said hello but he appeared to be in a hurry so I didn't bother him this time. Again. No one other than me seemed to recognize him.@@thelovelyone1582
Inside the great mind of John Hughes
Those outtakes were a very revealing look at the interviewing process. I only guessed they do that.
Thanks for uploading! And for including the 'outtakes' where the interviewer redoes her questions and reaction shots (so they can edit it seemlessly later) is fascinating too.
I feel like John Hughes didn't get the opportunity to do enough interviews about himself and his life. I really hate that we never really got to know him.
Sadly, John passed away much too soon. We were robbed of the 3rd Act to his film career. He left behind so many unproduced screenplays that will never see the light of day. On top of which, we were all hoping for another great teen film! Thankfully, though, we have a myriad films to chose from whenever we want to remember this legend. Goodnight, funny man!
He was done with directing after Curly Sue. He was concentrating on producing, so I don't see why any of those screenplays you're talking about couldn't have been made then or even now.
@@chiefscheider not now because his family owns the rights to most of his scripts and they aren't letting anyone film them. And as for why they weren't made back then...the industry changed to where no one was making teen films any more. After Home Alone, Hollywood was making more family films because they made money. Also, if you listen to people like Howard Deutch, John had become very disillusioned by the movie business. He lived out in the Chicago suburbs with his family always writing and some times producing but not wanting to direct any more. And by the time he wanted to start directing again, I know this...he had two or three scripts he wrote for John Candy alone that they were going to do, but when Candy died he put them in a drawer because they were for John. And then, in the late 90s when teen films started to be made again, John wrote and produced Reach The Rock that was barely released and another teen film called Tickets he couldn't get made (a good script actually) and in 2000, John brought the rights to the book The Perks of Being A Wallflower. He was going to write, produce and direct it. However, in the 5 years that he had the project, he couldn't get it off the ground. Amazingly, the novelist of that book was eventually able to write & direct his own version which was better than anything John would have made (in my opinion). The fact that John purchased the film rights to someone else's work that he was going to write, produce and direct might tell you something. There were a lot of reasons why his scripts weren't made then and can't be made now, but I think the biggest reason is because he stopped directing his own material and the material that was being made (Baby's Day Out, Just Visiting, Flubber) didn't score as well with filmgoers.
*some of his scripts, that studios owned, were rewritten and made like Drillbit Taylor, Blades of Glory and Maid in Manhatten, before his death.
@@TheNameisPlissken1981 none of those bombed and Curly Sue is a masterpiece
@@sahej6939 You're right. Not about Curly Sue, though. That film is a piece of shit.
@@TheNameisPlissken1981no, Curly Sue was great! probably you don’t like women and movies w girls you just can’t relate.
This man is a true legend.
He played Brian’s father picking him up after detention in The Breakfast Club…
This one definitely seemed to have one foot in the National Lampoon and Animal House era of movie comedy before Hughes got to something more original. Ferris Bueller was really Hughes' breakthrough where the Rooney subplot ended up inventing a whole new comedic genre, that of the home invader or criminal getting his butt kicked in a slapstick manner, which would evolve into Hughes' biggest commercial success in Home Alone and then define most of his 1990s work.
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The least Hollywood Hollywood person ever
A sick dude. But great films. Got away with a lot. And of course his job is easy. He just letting people act and writing a script about kids hanging aroung with kids. The gift and the curse. Very talented. Not missed tho.
What the heck are you talking about
@@THEBYGONE john huges isn't this about John hughes the same grown men who Molly Ringwald mother had to fight with him cause he had it in the script she should show her panties? A 16 year old? Is this the same john hughes are a different one
He is missed!l, get over yourself!