Jodie Foster Quotes
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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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 hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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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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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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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 think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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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 love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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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 want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
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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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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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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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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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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
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I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
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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 have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
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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'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.