I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I did "Frankie and Johnnie" and then I did "Other Sister" and "Princess Diaries" so that helped me get into the vein there of understanding women and trying to make them very pretty and very interesting.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

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.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

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.