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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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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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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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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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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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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'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 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 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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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 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 think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
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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 like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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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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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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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'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.