Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

I do feel strongly that we have got to do a little brand-positioning work. Wouldn't it be great to have something that everybody could say: 'Yep, that's Chicago.'

At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.

There is a very blurry line between the things we cant do and the things that we can.

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

I may not believe that "all things happen for a reason." But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

I love that feeling of being in love the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

The Blue Dogs are a group of conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives.

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

I definitely fall into the camp of thinking of AI as augmenting human capability and capacity.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.