Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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.

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

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.

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.

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