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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Parker Posey

World

Singing

Movies

" People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time. "

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

" In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign. "

" Mainly I love working on good writing. "

" 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.' "

" I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious. "

" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "

" 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. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it. "

" There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months. "

Parker Posey

Time

Long Time

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

" There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that. "

" People see images now more than they see movies. "

" I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse. "

" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "

Parker Posey

" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "

" 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'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "

" 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. "

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

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

Parker Posey

Sister

" I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal. "