Jodie Foster Quotes (59 Quotes)

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

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

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.

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.

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.

I think that women are more interesting in their forties. - interestingly enough said in the year Jodie was 40

because she's one of the few female figures in contemporary film to not only have successfully navigated a childhood performing in the movie business, but has consistently selected progressive roles for women in film.

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.

I stand to make more money doing that sequel than I've ever made in my life,

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.

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.

Each brings his prejudices to the table. At first, she thinks he's a heathen and a barbarian. Then, he reminds her that her native England has invaded other countries, and the English believe their way is the only way. As they grow to understand each other, it becomes a love story.

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

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

I think it works better with a woman, which is why I decided to do it, ... men know how to separate themselves from their child. Women lose that ability.

I've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well tow

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

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

It's my job, ... I wouldn't not promote my movie and you want to get out there and tell people what it's about and to communicate why you loved it.

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

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

You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one,

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.

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

Every time I go to leave for work he'll say, 'Are you going to be an astronaut today and find space aliens' ... I'll say, 'No, honey. No spacesuit for me today.

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

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

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

Nobody believes me ... She goes through a very interesting journey in the film. One of the most challenging that I've ever done, from trying to keep it together and trying not to become hysterical, to as time goes by, and she starts fearing for her daughter's safety and what might be happening to her, and sort of leading herself in some ways to a kind of madness.

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

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

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

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.

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 am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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.

She was perhaps one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and yet her name will forever be linked to the horror of Nazi Germany. There is no other woman in the 20th century who has been so admired and vilified simultaneously.

It becomes this weird reality 12 hours a day stuck inside this tube. Half the time the (background actors) were really sleeping. It was like a real airplane, so they were all knocked out.

It's kind of about a vigilante, somebody who has been the victim of a crime and who can't quite get over it and then finds herself mowing people down.