Top 183 Quotes & Sayings by Jodie Foster
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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 think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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.
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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.
I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.
But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
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.
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
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.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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.
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.
I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
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