We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
— Parker Posey
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.'
I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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.
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?'
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.'
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.
I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
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 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.
When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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!'
I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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.
I like sitting close to windows.
It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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.
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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.
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.
I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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.
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.
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
Mainly I love working on good writing.
I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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.
I love New York.
