Jodie Foster Quotes
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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 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'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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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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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 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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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.
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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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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 don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
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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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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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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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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
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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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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 didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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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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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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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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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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Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.