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
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
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
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. — 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
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
Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but… — 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
Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to… — 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
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's… — 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
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
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. — 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
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing… — 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
![“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 real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining…” quote by Jodie Foster](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/57d/jodie-foster-2055_afternoon_i-don-t-know-if-you-ve-ever-seen-some-of_1566183.jpg)
