Parker Posey Quotes

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

Based on the name value I had, I went to L.A. and got involved in independent movies.

I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.

The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive.

When 'Mortal Kombat' came out, I was living in an apartment in the Venice Canals in L.A. I didn't get paid a huge amount of money, so I had a nice apartment, but I couldn't afford to have it furnished. It was kind of like Robert De Niro's apartment in 'Heat': It looked like I was ready to walk away from it in ten seconds, because there was nothing.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

I'm not really trying to reach a big mass of an audience. My movies are done for a tiny, tiny budget, and that affords me to make them more personal.

You cannot make a living doing independent films.