Jodie Foster Quotes

"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Movies, Time, Years)

"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: War, Experience, Fear, Being, Solitude)

"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 kind of pro dubbing."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Time, People)

"I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing."
- Jodie Foster

"I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young."
- Jodie Foster

"I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Talk)

"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Movies, People, Idea)

"I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Family, Friends, Inspiring, Kids, Want)

"Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: History, Appreciation, Hurt, Painting, Understanding)

"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Life, Kids)

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
- Jodie Foster

"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Job)

"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Film, Reason)

"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Work, Mother)

"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Experience, Perspective)

"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Movies, Action, Writing)

"So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Love, Movies, Listening, Nothing, Talk)

"I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Life, People, Day, Kids)

"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Work, Care, Now, Project, Want)

"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Business, Midnight, Reason)

"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Film, First, Psychology)

"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Cruelty)

"I am the luckiest filmmaker I know."
- Jodie Foster

"I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Home, Day, Job, Night, Will)

"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Body, Eye, Pain)

"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: People, Artist, Responsibility)

"I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: History, Women, Victims)

"I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Home, Mom, Work, Day, Makeup, Night)

"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Society, Dignity)

"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Love, Movies)

"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Love, Intention)

"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Life)

"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Age, Time, Deep, Kids, Relationships, School)

"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Fancy, Word)

"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
- Jodie Foster
(Related: Movies, Ambition)