Vera Farmiga Quotes
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I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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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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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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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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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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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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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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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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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.