Jodie Foster Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Jodie Foster

  Movie, Film, Reason

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

  Jodie Foster

  Europe, Kind, Film

• I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Cameras, Actors

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

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

  Jodie Foster

  Recycling, Film, Cents

• 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.

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

  Jodie Foster

  Film, Developing, Hard

  "Jodie Foster Interview THE BEAVER; Plus an Update on Neill Blomkamp's ELYSIUM". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.

• I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.

  Jodie Foster

  Dog, Stars, Real

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

• Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Skills, Acting

  "Jodie Foster Searches for Her Child in Flightplan". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. September 19, 2005.

• Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

  Jodie Foster

  Morning, Waiting, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  Jodie Foster

  School, Kids, Avid

  "Jodie Foster On “The Beaver” and Making Personal Films". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2011.

• 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.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

• 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.

• By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

  Jodie Foster

  Psychology, Directors, Shooting

• Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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