Alec Baldwin on working with John Hughes

This nice remembrance from actor Alec Baldwin who worked with John Hughes on the movie She’s Having A Baby, the 1988 movie Hughes wrote and directed. Here’s a money quote:

I think a director’s job is to help actors (and all of the crew members) make the best possible choices they can and help them execute those choices. Hughes was a wonderful director to work with. Positive, generous, supportive, unassuming. Hughes told me that when he directed, he cast as critical an eye toward the material as if someone else had composed it. “Who wrote this shit?” he would joke when he felt he had hit some impasse in his scene work. On the set, Hughes did not conceal his enthusiasm about your work, as some directors automatically feel they must. I have worked on some comedy films where the director was the least funny person on the set. Hughes was funny.

“Hughes was funny.” Probably the best accolade for anyone who traffics in comedies.