Jodie Foster Quotes - Page 6

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• I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.

  Jodie Foster

  Fun, Thinking, Passionate

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Choices, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

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  Thinking, Problem, More Money

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

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  Important, Way, Sometimes

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

  Jodie Foster

  Psychology, Bases

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• When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life.

  Jodie Foster

  Mom, Lonely, Morning

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

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  College, Thinking, Filling

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

  Jodie Foster

  Appreciate, Accomplishment, Gender

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• Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

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  Long, Casting, Process

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

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  Jobs, Gray Area, Gray

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• I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.

  Jodie Foster

  Night, Thinking, People

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

  Jodie Foster

  Important, Trying, Acting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

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  Beautiful, Mom, Struggle

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• I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.

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  Drama, Light, Dramatic

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• I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.

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  Sleep, Naps, Sometimes

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• Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

  Jodie Foster

  Play, Brogues, Accents

  "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

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  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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• I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

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  Thinking, Play, Parent

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• I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

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  Creative, Would Be, Needs

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• My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

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  Memories, Tvs

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• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

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  Filmmaker, Knows

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• I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

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  Europe, Kind, Film

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• I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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  Recycling, Film, Cents

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

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  Care, Want, Projects

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• 'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

  Jodie Foster

  Chickens, Taxi, Weirdo

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