“I can’t tell you how much I like your comments about my movies. Nor can I tell you how helpful they are to me for future projects. I listen. Not to Hollywood. I listen to you. I make these movies for you. Really. No lie. There’s a difference I think you understand.”
said John Hughes to Alison Bryne Fields in 1997, corresponding to a fan who had some years earlier became a pen pal of his, in the most touching piece I’ve read since his sad passing yesterday.
On another note, I’ve just finished watching Sixteen Candles and the Hughes screenplay and dialogue is still as sharp as I remember it. Amazing how he managed to put words in the mouths of so many different age groups and character types in that movie, and yet they all sound 100% authentic – all the characters very much lived in, and real.
And jesus was Anthony Michael Hall impossibly young back then or what?
