97 Meaningful Quotes By Jodie Foster On Solitude, Fear, Destiny, Aspirations Etc
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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.
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.
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 will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
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.
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 me.
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 like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.
I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
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.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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 saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
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 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 do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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.
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 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.
