Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

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.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.