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All Quotes by author - Parker Posey

" Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange. "

" As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. "

" 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. "

" Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it. "

" But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. "

" 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. "

" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "

" Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama. "

" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "

" Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director. "

" Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. "

" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "

" I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should. "

" I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining. "

" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "

" I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life. "

" I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool. "

" I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared. "

" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "

" I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. "

" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "

" I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television. "

" I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!' "

" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "

" I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks. "

" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "

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