I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

I spent two years telling studio heads that it wasn't a cancer picture. I hate cancer pictures. I don't want to see a cancer picture. There is only one thing worth saying about cancer, and that is that there are human beings in cancer wards.