Paul Mazursky Quotes

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

Most films have a relationship or lack of it. They are about human beings.

I'm interested in everything about people. Not just, 'what do you do for a living?' but I want to know about their fears and sadnesses and listen to their regrets, both sides of it, the happy and the sad.

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

If I've made something really serene... well, if everything is like that, it's like having too much icing on your cake. You need something else under it, some kind of grounding. It's like if you're making a film, you can't have only happy moments, or else they become meaningless.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

All the time, I'm watching relationships.

'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place.

I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.