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
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.
I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I think it works better with a woman, which is why I decided to do it, ... men know how to separate themselves from their child. Women lose that ability.
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.
That was heartbreaking, to have that fall apart, two weeks before shooting,
It doesn't feel like a long time to me. My life is full. I have new priorities. I've been working a long time, so now I do movies for a different reason than I did for much of my career.
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.
You have to make a big effort to try to have a life, and that's important to you only if you spent your entire childhood not having one,
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.