Jodie Foster Quotes

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Jodie Foster

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 19, 1962

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

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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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Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

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I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

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I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

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There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

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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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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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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

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I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

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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 don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

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