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"Never took a stunt that I wasn't able to do. And, being on Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA, I made a difference in young performers' lives."

"You can take one of my outfits and it's usually classic design. I don't use tricks."

"Every project has its own identity, its own look, its own feel. I never believed in doing things by formula. You design a project to look a certain way and characters move the way they're designed so every show has its own look. I never wanted a Hanna-Barbera or a Disney look, because all of the sudden, you're limited."

"I love the process of writing music. That's where it's really most exciting. I look forward to that first performance, the hearing of the music I've written, whether it be for film or television or in a concert hall. After that it becomes part of the world out there, I don't quite have the same attachment to it that I did when I'm sitting in my room alone and writing it."

"There's something about handling the film that was part of it - part of the system. But it's gone, and it won't come back. The feel, the smell of the film. The solitude. It was a fabulous way to edit. I loved it."

"I'd like to be remembered as a hands-on producer who always worked closely with the writer, closely with the director, who always had tried to achieve the vision that I had of the picture combined or adjusted with the vision of the director, so that there's one vision between us. And as much as possible, to make pictures that were entertaining and positive."