A biography for Jodie Fosterhasn’t been written yet.
“I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.”
“My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.”
“Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.”
“My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.”
“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.”
“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”
“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”
“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.”
“I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.”
“I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.”
“I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.”
“'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.”
“I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.”
“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”
“I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.”
“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.”
“It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.”
“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”
“I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.”
“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”