Parker Posey Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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When people told the audience that Sam Kinison was good, he was accepted after that.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
