Why doesn't John Hughes direct movies anymore?

Question

I know he does screenwriting, etc.

Answer 1

I'll ask him next time I talk to him ..lol.. actually I do speak with him... he lives in my town and calls up the police dept to inform when he is doing "controlled" burns (burning of debris) So being a dispatcher, I have the honor of speaking with him. Nice enough guy actually...here is an article I found about this...

John Hughes stopped directing for a reason.
While the "rich" and the "poor" always learn to get along in Hughes' films, there's no question that his allegiance lies with the latter. Consider the quietly devastating passage from Uncle Buck wherein the slovenly, unemployed Buck, flipping through an album at the suburban mansion of his wealthy brother, notices a wedding photo that has been folded to crop Buck out of the picture: Hughes keeps the scene subjective by lingering on the photograph instead of on Buck's reaction, effectively turning sympathy into empathy. But even at that point, his identification with the underclass was starting to seem a little disingenuous, and once you get to Curly Sue, the last film with Hughes at the helm, his portrayal of poverty is downright paternalistic. I firmly believe that a fear of looking like a hypocrite drove him out of the director's chair--you can be Ken Loach or you can be a multi-millionaire (as Hughes had become by crassly exploiting his ability to churn out a screenplay a week).

Answer 2

He doesn't want to. I think that he is just a very private person at heart. Apparently he was never comfortable in his role as a age of sorts for the 80's kids.

Answer 3

Because he is dead.