273 Quotes by Jodie Foster

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

My kids are at the age now where they are both in school.

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.

never wants to feel resentful on a film again. I can never work again for a bad person with a huge ego.

I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.