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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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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.
Jodie Foster
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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.
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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.
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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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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.
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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.
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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
Jodie Foster
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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.
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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.
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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.
Jodie Foster -
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
Jodie Foster -
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
Jodie Foster
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I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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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.
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I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
Jodie Foster
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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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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.
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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