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.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

I'm too old to be forced.

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

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page 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.

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.