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Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

American Actress

Born: Nov 19, 1962

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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant. Jodie Foster

Life My Life Young Kids Significant Stimulating Them Really Full

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. Jodie Foster

Love Listening Nothing About More Directors Talk Yes Than Movies

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

Best You About Feel Make Passionately Reason Film

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young. Jodie Foster

Young Like Get Fanning Dakota

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life. Jodie Foster

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. Jodie Foster

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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. Jodie Foster

Atheist People Say Always Surprised

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. Jodie Foster

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

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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. Jodie Foster

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As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive. Jodie Foster

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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies. Jodie Foster

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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. Jodie Foster

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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV. Jodie Foster

Memories TV Doing Commercials Earliest Earliest Memories

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

Me Silence People Something Something People Expected Lambs

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear. Jodie Foster

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

Director Most Sensibility Really Actor

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. Jodie Foster

Tough Adolescence Child Child Actor Actor

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. Jodie Foster

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