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.

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

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 think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.