The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age. — Jodie Foster Copy Share
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. — Jodie Foster Copy Share
Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. — Jodie Foster Copy Share
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes. — Jodie Foster Copy Share
Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
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… — Jodie Foster Copy Share
When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away. — Jodie Foster Copy Share
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