Quotes from Parker Posey

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

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

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.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

I like to support local record stores.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

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.

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.

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

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

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

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.

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

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.

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].

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