I’d always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren’t famous. – Jodie Foster
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you’re most ashamed of. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn’t have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
So, yes, there’s nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies. – Jodie Foster
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. – Jodie Foster
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. – Jodie Foster