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

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

[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.

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.