Vera Farmiga Quotes
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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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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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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'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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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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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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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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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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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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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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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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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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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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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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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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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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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.