Paul Mazursky Quotes

#1. I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

Paul Mazursky

#2. We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.

Kamila Shamsie

#3. Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

Gunther Hauk

#4. If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

Paul Mazursky

#5. I am a cold hearted, ruthless bastard who sees what he wants and takes it. Is that not so?" He stepped closer to her, too close. His voice, no longer tender, was like the growl of a hungry wolf. "You think I don't want you." He ran his fingers over the pulse beat of her throat..."But I do.

Paula Quinn

#6. Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe.
[Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

George Herbert

#7. It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Epictetus

#8. 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.

Paul Mazursky

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

Paul Mazursky

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

Paul Mazursky

#11. Every time I've strayed from the beaten path I've never regretted it.

Tori Murden

#12. 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.

Paul Mazursky

#13. 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.

Paul Mazursky

#14. Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

Paul Mazursky

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

Paul Mazursky

#16. I don't like movies that are morally simple.

Paul Mazursky

#17. The sexiest people are thinkers.

Vivienne Westwood

#18. 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.

Paul Mazursky

#19. You don't need to blame yourself just because you've hurt someone, just like when you're walking you can't really blame yourself to crush some ants... that's what being stronger ones means.

Sui Ishida

#20. If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

Jane Fonda