Top 96 Quotes by Jodie Foster

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

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.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

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

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

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

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