I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the… — 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 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
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
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
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
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 prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. — 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
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of… — 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
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. — 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
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 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 Image
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 Image
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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 Image
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. — 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 used to… — 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 all the… — 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 getting it… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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 Image
I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
