Parker Posey

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

“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.”

“Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.”

“Mainly I love working on good writing.”

“As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.”

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

“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.”

“Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.”

“Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'”

“I care about being creative and expressing myself.”

“I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.”

“How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.”

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

“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!'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.”