Paul Mazursky

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

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.