Latest Parker Posey Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular. It's like New Age music in the '80s, or art. And then independent film. Now everyone's a fashion designer. It's had a big effect in New York, in our culture.

  Parker Posey

  Fashion, Art, Independent

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

  Parker Posey

  Independent, Audience

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.

  Parker Posey

  Independent, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

  Parker Posey

  Thinking, Directors, Tough

  Source: www.elle.com

• I ran to Rachel [Comey]'s show and on the way I found a potted tree - an umbrella tree - on the street. I always think things are going to be way more intimate than they are and there aren't going to be a lot of people around. I don't know why I think this. I'm always shocked at what a hoopla things are. They were like, 'Hurry up.' So I put the tree down and I see Rachel and she's like, 'Hurry up, sit down.'

  Parker Posey

  Thinking, People, Tree

  Source: www.elle.com

• I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

  Parker Posey

  Mom, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm a grown-up and I'm a creative person so I should try to give something to that and see what I can make with that. And not sit around listening to people be like, 'You really should be on an HBO show. You'd be great on an Amazon series.' You're like, 'Thank you, okay. I don't have any offers.'

  Parker Posey

  Hbo, People, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

  Parker Posey

  Media, Stuff, Digital

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

  Parker Posey

  Book, Looks, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

• You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

  Parker Posey

  Talking, Play, Acting

  Source: www.elle.com

• I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

  Parker Posey

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.elle.com

• Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

  Parker Posey

  Giving, Language, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

• I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

  Parker Posey

  Art, Years, Wow

  Source: www.elle.com

• I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

  Parker Posey

  Guests

  Source: www.elle.com

• I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

  Parker Posey

  Age, Able, Particular

  Source: www.elle.com

• People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

  Parker Posey

  Fun, Cake, People

  Source: www.elle.com

• I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

  Parker Posey

  Source: www.elle.com

• I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

  Parker Posey

  Queens, Fun, Drama

  Source: www.elle.com

• With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

  Parker Posey

  Jobs, Confused, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

• As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.

  Parker Posey

  Running, Horse, Actors

  Source: www.elle.com

• You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.

  Parker Posey

  Real, People, Waiting

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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

  Heart, People, Focus

  Source: www.elle.com

• It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

  Parker Posey

  Art, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  Parker Posey

  Men, People, Bears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

  Parker Posey

  Voice, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com