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

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great.

You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript in a way or just somebody that looks a little like they should get it. So this is all I learned actually learn from Lucy [Ball].

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

One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.

We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.