Parker Posey Quotes

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I've directed independent film.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

It takes two years to make a good film.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?