Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

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

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

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.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.