Parker Posey Quotes
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
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It's not really cool to be singled out.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
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My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
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I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.