Jodie Foster Quotes

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

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.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

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

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

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

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

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

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.

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

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I look at it and I go: I think I'll just kick it.

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

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

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

In the end, winning is sleeping better.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

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

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

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

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

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

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

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

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.

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.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.