I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I did "Frankie and Johnnie" and then I did "Other Sister" and "Princess Diaries" so that helped me get into the vein there of understanding women and trying to make them very pretty and very interesting.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

[The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done.