Jodie Foster Quotes
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I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
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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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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'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 like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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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 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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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 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 love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs 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 don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
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Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
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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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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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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
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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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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.