Brat Pack & friends remember John Hughes

“I feel like a part of my childhood has died. Nobody made me laugh harder or more often than John Hughes.”

(As the top comedy writer-director-producer in Hollywood currently, Apatow shares a similar stature John Hughes held in the ‘80s.)  (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

“It’s incredibly sad. He was a wonderful man, a genius, a poet. I don’t think anyone has come close to him as being the poet of the youth of America in the postwar period. He was to them what Shakespeare was to the Elizabethan Age.”

(Appeared in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” as told to Fox Business)  (Marina Chavez / Associated Press)

“I will always cherish the time I spent with John Hughes.I was so grateful for the opportunity to walk around in his shoes and try to see the world through through his brilliant eyes. Sharing his films with my kids over the years I can see the timelessness of his work.”

(Appeared in “She’s Having a Baby,” as told to People magazine)  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

“He took a tremendous chance on me. Like Orson Welles, he was a boy wonder, a director’s director, a writer’s writer, a filmmaker’s filmmaker. He was one of the giants.”

(Appeared in “Weird Science,” as told to People magazine)   (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)