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I'm too old to be forced.
There is more to life than show business.
Never underestimate the power of your sister.
I like to get up in the morning and see people.
I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.
When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
For Joey Bishop, always was kind of the lost soul, so I did a traffic joke.
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.
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.
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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.
I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.
He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.
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.
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.
A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
You do a little more of a record album these days. See I just wanted to put a few songs in Beaches and we did very well. The album of Beaches went gold.
I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.
I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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.
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 don't get crazy, see what happens.
[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.
I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...
I think it holds up pretty good because more and more women are coming to the forefront in all areas, and back then they said that nobody would care about women's friendship.
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 - because who else would hire me?
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.
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.
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.