152 Quotes by Parker Posey

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

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

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

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

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in the '90s becoming part of a system where financiers and movie stars could change the material. I came along just before all that happened.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.