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 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.

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

For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.

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

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

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.