273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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

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

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

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

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. The answer is always art.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.