Jodie Foster (birthed Alicia Christian Foster, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American film star, manufacturer as well as director. She has actually won two Oscars for Best Actress, The Accused (1988) and Silence of the Lambs (1991). In 1975 she played "Tallulah" in gangster musical Bugsy Malone.
14 years old, she was nominated for an Oscar for finest sustaining actress as a 12-year-old woman of the street in the movie Taxi Driver contrary Robert De Niro. De Niro's personality in the flick was intended to assassinate a governmental prospect. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot. President Ronald Reagan and three other people, and also declared that the motive was to thrill Foster. His obsession with Foster followed he had seen Taxi Driver numerous times, and also he pursued her while she studied at Yale University in New Haven.
In 1991, Foster made his debut as a film director and starred in Little Man Tate. Foster has actually also included playing in the flicks The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), Maverick (1994), Contact (1997), Anna and also the King (1999) and Panic Room (2002).
Jodie Foster 13 September 2007 in Berlin after viewing The Brave One
Foster talks well-versed French and has played in the French-language films such as Un Long Dimanche de fiançailles (2004).
Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Jodie, under the main topic Art.
"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize"
"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"
"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"
"So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies"
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from"
"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant"
"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"
"I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast"
"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"
"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare"
"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies"
"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy"
"I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing"
"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age"
"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 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"
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director"
"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project"
"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern"
"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it"
"Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting"
"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse"
"I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends"
"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it"
"I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young"
"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 fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day"
"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 am the luckiest filmmaker I know"
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable"
"Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area"
"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life"
"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films"
"I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about"
