Parker Posey Quotes
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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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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I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
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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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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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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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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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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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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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Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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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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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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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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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 the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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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.