If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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