Parker Posey Quotes

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.