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.

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.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn’t really my thing.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.