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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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 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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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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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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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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I love 'Fishing With John' so much.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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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'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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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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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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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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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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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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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.