Jodie Foster Quotes

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

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

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

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

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

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

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.

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

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.

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

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

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

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

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.