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

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….

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile..

[The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. ….

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

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on..

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy….

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

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy....

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

Never underestimate the power of your sister..

I'm too old to be forced..

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….

I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I ….

My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this is not good enough. ….

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

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 me….

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - bec….

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'….

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