Quotes from Jodie Foster

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

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.

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

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

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

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

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.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

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 wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

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

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.