Parker Posey Quotes
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Women just love to shop.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
