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" The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game. "
Parker Posey
Golf
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Football
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I'm an actor, so I like costumes. "
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" My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994. "
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" I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "
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" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "
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" I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. "
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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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" 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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" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "
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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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" I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. "
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" You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that. "
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" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "
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