Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky
Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazurskywas an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards: three times for Best Original Screenplay, once for Best Adapted Screenplay, and once for Best Picture for An Unmarried Woman. Other films written and directed by Mazursky include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, Moscow on the Hudson, and Down and Out in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 April 1930
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Right now, for example, I'm between pictures and I have a couple of ideas and a few scenes written down and, basically, I'm just fiddling.
I don't think I have it in me to make a movie in which all the situations and relationships are black and white. I get into the gray areas.
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.
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 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.
I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.
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.
If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.
I don't like movies that are morally simple.
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.
California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
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.