I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
Parker Posey
I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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.
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.'
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.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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.
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.
I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
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!'
It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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.
I like to support local record stores.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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.
My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
It's not really cool to be singled out.
It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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 have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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.
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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.
Mainly I love working on good writing.
I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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 have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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.
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.
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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.'
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
