Jodie Foster Quotes
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.
'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.
Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
