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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I’m a technician. I don’t go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes. – Jodie Foster
I guess I’ve played a lot of victims, but that’s what a lot of the history of women is about. – Jodie Foster
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
Every movie that I’ve had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
‘Taxi Driver’ was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn’t become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken. – Jodie Foster
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I don’t have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don’t know that if I hadn’t been an actor as a young person, I don’t know that I ever would have chosen this because it’s not really my personality. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I’m interested in directing movies about situations that I’ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I’ve come to believe in. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I don’t like it when reviews aren’t about the movie. When they’re about how much money somebody made, or who they’re sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it. – Jodie Foster
