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

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

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.

I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

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

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.

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.