Jodie Foster Quotes
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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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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 earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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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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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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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 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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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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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 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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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'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 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'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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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 spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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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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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.
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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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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.