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.

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.

I love Hindi films.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.