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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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" 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. "

Parker Posey

Place

Feel

Human

" 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. "

" I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. "

" I'm an actor, so I like costumes. "

Parker Posey

Actor

Costumes

" 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. "

Parker Posey

Hollywood

Trying

" When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out. "

" The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance. "

" I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical. "

" 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. "

" They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Parker Posey

You

Work

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Parker Posey

Know

Strange

" I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform. "

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

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

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

" They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. "