Jodie Foster Quotes

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Jodie Foster

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1962

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 like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

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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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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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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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I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

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I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

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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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With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

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I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

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I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

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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 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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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

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As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

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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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