Jodie Foster Quotes
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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 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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'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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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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'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
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I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
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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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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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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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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.
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I'd like to dedicate this award to all the women before me that never had the chances that I've had, the survivors, the pioneers and the outcasts. My blood, my tradition. And I'd like to thank all the people in this industry who've respected my choices and have not been afraid of the power and dignity that that entitled me to.
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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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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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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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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.