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John Hughes
Also known as:Edmond Dantes, John Wilden Hughes Jr.
Occupation:Director • Producer • Screenplay • Writer
Born:February 18, 1950
Birthplace:Lansing, Michigan, United States Of America
Spouse:Nancy Ludwig
Children:2
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John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films such as National Lampoon`s Vacation (1983) and its sequels National Lampoon`s European Vacation (1985) and National Lampoon`s Christmas Vacation (1989), Mr. Mom (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Weird Science (1985), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller`s Day Off (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), She`s Having a Baby (1988), Uncle Buck (1989), Dutch (1991), Dennis the Menace (1993), Baby`s Day Out (1994), the Beethoven franchise (co-written under a pseudonym with Amy Holden-Jones) and Home Alone (1990) and its sequels Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) and Home Alone 3 (1997).
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Raja Gosnell
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Chris Columbus
Director
Richard Vane
Producer
Family
Nancy Ludwig
Ex-Spouse
James Hughes
Son
John Hughes
Son
John Hughes Sr.
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Popular Movies
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Maid In Manhattan
Ferris Bueller`S Day Off
Flubber
Miracle on 34th Street
Baby`s Day Out
Dennis the Menace
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone
Planes, Trains And Automobiles

Personal Quotes (11)

  • "People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions."
  • "What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script."
  • "When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all these stores and all these stations.' That isn't right."
  • "My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us."
  • "I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now."
  • "I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!"
  • "Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met."
  • "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 Everyman."
  • " I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right."
  • " I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away."
  • " A nerd will be a nerd all his life."
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