Top 80 Jodie Foster Quotes

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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.

I don’t make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I’d always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren’t famous.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it’s a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I don’t direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that’s not what I’m looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

But now I really don’t want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

I don’t make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I didn’t have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I’m always more energized by directing. It’s more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It’s a huge passion for me.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn’t have deep relationships with kids my own age.

I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that’s kind of a natural progression. But I’m definitely drawn to it. It’s probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

Part of me longs to do a job where there’s not a gray area.

I think ‘destiny’ is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

I’m really not a clothes person. To me, that’s just work. It’s the thing I hate to do the most. I don’t want to be judged in that way.

I don’t find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

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.

‘Silence Of The Lambs’ was not something people expected me to do.

As I’ve said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I think ‘destiny’ is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I guess I’ve played a lot of victims, but that’s what a lot of the history of women is about.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.

I don’t have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don’t know that if I hadn’t been an actor as a young person, I don’t know that I ever would have chosen this because it’s not really my personality.

As an actor, I’m attracted to drama; as a director, it’s humor – because it’s the story of my life, and I can’t be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

Most actors don’t really have a director’s sensibility. They have an actor’s sensibility.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

I’ve always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

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.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

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.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I’m kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

I’d always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren’t famous.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store.

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.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn’t writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I think I’m drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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 went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

It’s hard to get personal films off the ground, and it’s hard developing them.

With ‘Taxi Driver,’ I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn’t me.

I like dramas. I’ve always liked dramas. And I’m a pretty light person. I don’t consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

I don’t direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that’s not what I’m looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

Part of me longs to do a job where there’s not a gray area.

I’d like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

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.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

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.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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.