Jodie Foster Quotes
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I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
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I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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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.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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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.
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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.
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I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.
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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
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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.
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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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.
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.