Jodie Foster Quotes
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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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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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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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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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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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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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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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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 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 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'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 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 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 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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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 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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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'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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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 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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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.