Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.