I directed fourteen movies. Every movie had Hector Elizondo. He didn't like Beaches. I don't know, it was originally not a happy movie at all, it was much sadder than that. And they brought me in to kind of make it a little more 'warm', I guess you might call it. The original ending was a whole messy thing.

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

You can't have an actor where the audience says, aw, that poor, sweet guy. You got to get somebody who's, like, nondescript in a way or just somebody that looks a little like they should get it. So this is all I learned actually learn from Lucy [Ball].

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.

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

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

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