Jodie Foster Quotes
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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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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But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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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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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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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.
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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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My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
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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.
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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.
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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.