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

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

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

People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

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.