Jodie Foster

Quotes by Jodie Foster

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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.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

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.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

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.

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

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.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

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 think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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.

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

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.

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