Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. being her debut. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth19 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
The movie worked because people believed in her heroism. I won't play her with negative attributes she'd never have.
They're not your movie star; they're not your big names. ... There's something about their work and their inner life that I just love and am so attracted to.
Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
It was like working on a cruise ship.
I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
It becomes this weird reality 12 hours a day stuck inside this tube. Half the time the (background actors) were really sleeping. It was like a real airplane, so they were all knocked out.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
It's kind of about a vigilante, somebody who has been the victim of a crime and who can't quite get over it and then finds herself mowing people down.
He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
Every time I go to leave for work he'll say, 'Are you going to be an astronaut today and find space aliens?' ... I'll say, 'No, honey. No spacesuit for me today.
In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down.
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.