Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. (Jodie Foster)
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. (Jodie Foster)
He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies. (Jodie Foster)
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)
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)
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)
Anna changes. That's something that neither Deborah Kerr or Irene Dunne could do. They had to start off soft and stay that way. In our version, she's sort of tough and stubborn, but as time goes on she softens. (Jodie Foster)
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. (Jodie Foster)
There's a kind of intensity that she has, and a real focus, ... I can glean from her personality that she's going to have a very long career and is going to be a very centered person. You just look at her and go, wow, this kid has really got it together, and it's just so nice to see. (Jodie Foster)
I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast. (Jodie Foster)
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. (Jodie Foster)
Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. (Jodie Foster)
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)
It's a primal thing, this very unconscious place with the fears of what can happen to your children and will you be able to keep them safe. I like all the different levels of fear that she goes through, from feeling like her daughter's out there somewhere, to worrying that somebody is hurting her. Then there's that place of utter desperation where you wonder if you're completely insane. Then there's that final turn, when she turns into a robot who will take anyone down. (Jodie Foster)
It doesn't feel like a long time to me. My life is full. I have new priorities. I've been working a long time, so now I do movies for a different reason than I did for much of my career. (Jodie Foster)