Quotes from Paul Mazursky

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.