Jodie Foster Quotes
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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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'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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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 one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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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 love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.
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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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'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 think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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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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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
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I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.
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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.
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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.