Jodie Foster Quotes
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It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
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I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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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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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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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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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 guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
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Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
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I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.
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I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.
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The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
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Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
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Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
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You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
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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 had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.
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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.