Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

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.

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.