[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

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

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

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

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, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

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

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

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

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

I'm too old to be forced.

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

If you want to win a game of life, there is only one way — you must be unpredictable. Otherwise life will never forgive such a deadly sin.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.