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

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" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

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

" 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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" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994. "

" I love 'Fishing With John' so much. "

" I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough. "

" You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff. "

" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "

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

" It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.' "

" With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. "

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

" I love bayou life. "

" There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level. "

" 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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