Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

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

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

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