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

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

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

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.

He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

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.