I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Tough decisions have to be made to close our fiscal gap, stabilise our debt, and restore our state-owned enterprises to health.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.