273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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

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.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

She was perhaps one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and yet her name will forever be linked to the horror of Nazi Germany. There is no other woman in the 20th century who has been so admired and vilified simultaneously.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.