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As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
Jodie Foster
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
Jodie Foster
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.
Jodie Foster
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
Jodie Foster
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
Jodie Foster
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.
Jodie Foster
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
Jodie Foster
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
Jodie Foster
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
Jodie Foster
I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
Jodie Foster
I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
Jodie Foster
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
Jodie Foster
I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.
Jodie Foster
I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
Jodie Foster
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.
Jodie Foster
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
Jodie Foster
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
Jodie Foster
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.
Jodie Foster
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.
Jodie Foster
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Jodie Foster
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
Jodie Foster
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Occupation:
American Actress
Born:
November 19, 1962
Quotes count:
83
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Jodie Foster
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