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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. "
Parker Posey
Southern
Move
Left
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" I love New York. "
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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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Strange
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Independence
Privacy
Solitude
" I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork. "
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Catholic
I Was Raised
Never
" 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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Say
Started
" Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.' "
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Live
Always
Child
" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "
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Way
Kind
Robot
" I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?' "
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You
Two
Space
" 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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Done
School
Better
" They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. "
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High
Queen
Love
" I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!' "
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Wind
Play
How
" It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying. "
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Hollywood
Trying
Me
" Mainly I love working on good writing. "
Parker Posey
Working
Writing
Good
" 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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Music
Security
Someone
" I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool. "
Parker Posey
Thing
Whole
Got
" I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me. "
Parker Posey
Like
Sister
Me
" 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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Think
Party
Girl
" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "
Parker Posey
Expressing
Care
Myself
" 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. "
Parker Posey
Recovery
Courage
Hands
" 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. "
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Believe
Book
Good
" I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy. "
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Love
Mother
She
" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "
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Always
Why
Women
" I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me. "
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Friend
Best
Best Friend
" I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough. "
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Enough
Eat
Hunger
" 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. "
Parker Posey
Think
Waiting
Best
" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "
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Job
Every
Time
" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "
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Like
Men
Bears
" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "
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Successful
Stars
Movies
" 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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Mom
Parents
Personality