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.

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

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.

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 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.

I like to get up in the morning and see people.