Jodie Foster Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

  Jodie Foster

  Important, Way, Sometimes

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

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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.

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Light, Dramatic

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

  Jodie Foster

  Sleep, Naps, Sometimes

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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.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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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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• 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

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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.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Play, Parent

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• What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Morning, Talking, Ideas

  "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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• I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

  Jodie Foster

  Dublin, Rainy, Had A Great Time

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

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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.

  Jodie Foster

  Creative, Would Be, Needs

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• I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

  Jodie Foster

  Filmmaker, Knows

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• I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

  Jodie Foster

  Kings, Thinking, Perspective

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• 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.

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

  Jodie Foster

  Europe, Kind, Film

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

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Dark, People

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• My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

  Jodie Foster

  Memories, Tvs

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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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• Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

  Jodie Foster

  Passion, Acting, Intense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jodie Foster

  Different, Stories, Way

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• 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.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, People, Focus

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

  Jodie Foster

  Care, Want, Projects

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• 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

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