Quotes from Jodie Foster

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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

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.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

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.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

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.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

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

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

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.

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

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've gone through phases of just forgiving your parents for not being as young as they used to be or not being able to do the things they could do before, and I think this film is about forgiveness. It has a real fondness and a real bitterness as well towards family members.