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

Work You Wondering

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

Parker Posey

Yin Vampire UN

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

Parker Posey

Wind Win T

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

Parker Posey

Writing World Vision

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

Parker Posey

Experience Wit Used

I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

Parker Posey

Life World Top

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

Parker Posey

Want Us T

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.

Parker Posey

Dreams Car Wit

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

Parker Posey

Women Men Car

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

Parker Posey

You Why Trouble

The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

Parker Posey

Very UN Than

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.

Parker Posey

Work Movies Finance

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.

Parker Posey

Wrap Wall 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.

Parker Posey

Waiting Wait Us

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.

Parker Posey

Love Food Art

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

Work You Wondering

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.

Parker Posey

Music Would Wit

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

Parker Posey

Love Yin Woman

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

Parker Posey

Women Men Why

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.

Parker Posey

Movies You Us

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.

Parker Posey

Work Great Car

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

Parker Posey

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

Parker Posey

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

Parker Posey

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!'

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

I like to support local record stores.

Parker Posey

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

Parker Posey

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

Parker Posey

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

Parker Posey

It's not really cool to be singled out.

Parker Posey

It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

Parker Posey

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

Parker Posey

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

Parker Posey

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Parker Posey

Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

Mainly I love working on good writing.

Parker Posey

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

Parker Posey

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.

Parker Posey

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

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

Parker Posey

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.'

Parker Posey

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

Parker Posey