Jodie Foster Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
This is the place where I learned to live this life, to curse this life, and to claim this life for my very own.
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
A woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.