Parker Posey Quotes
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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I love 'Fishing With John' so much.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.