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.

One of my thrills of the business is to find young people, there's a window. I like young people who are in that brief window between on their-way-up and rehab. In that window I can make stars. It's not really true but it's not so far off.

I work with a lot of women and yeah I see totally different... My two sisters were different, I have two daughters that are pretty different.

Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

I was crying when I was editing [Beacher] but I stopped all the screenings years ago because I had a headache but then I had seen it again... Well I always cry at the same place, when they play that song "Wind Beneath My Wings". It gets you.