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.

In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11"". So I just picked baseball.

If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.