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 make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Privacy. Someday, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was. — 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
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 wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm… — 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 don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places… — 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've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about… — 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
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my… — 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