Parker Posey

“I'm an actor, so I like costumes.”

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

“There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“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 was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.”

“Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.”

“I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.”

“I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.”

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

“Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.”