Jodie Foster Quotes - Page 3

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

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

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.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

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

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

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

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

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

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

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 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.

I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find out you're going to work about six months before you start shooting, and then there's prep and there's post afterward, and there's stuff to do, and then suddenly you've gone a year without directing. There's a part of me that has to not be tempted by that in order to commit more to the directing. Honestly, the big reason for me to act is to observe other directors and learn from them. That seems to be the biggest draw.

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

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.

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

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 attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

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.

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

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.