273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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

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.

Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It’s about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It’s about being in it, not on top of it.

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

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them – and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

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

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we’re going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That’s the great thing about science fiction.

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 like dramas. I’ve always liked dramas. And I’m a pretty light person. I don’t consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.