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.

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.

I'm too old to be forced.

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

I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.

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.

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