Top 120 Jodie Foster Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I’m the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”

— Jodie Foster

102. “It’s hard to get personal films off the ground, and it’s hard developing them.”

— Jodie Foster

103. “Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, “Wow, it ended up being something totally different!””

— Jodie Foster

104. “Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store.”

— Jodie Foster

105. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

106. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

107. “I suppose that’s my one little secret, the secret of my success.”

— Jodie Foster

108. “What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

110. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

111. “In a weird way, that’s the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you’re afraid of, and you get to say, ‘Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.’ It’s kind of a way of exorcising fear.”

— Jodie Foster

112. “Most actors don’t really have a director’s sensibility. They have an actor’s sensibility.”

— Jodie Foster

113. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

114. “I’ve always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”

— Jodie Foster

115. “I also feel like I’ve learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

117. “My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.”

— Jodie Foster

118. “I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.”

— Jodie Foster

119. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

121. “I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it’s a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”

— Jodie Foster

122. “I’m interested in directing movies about situations that I’ve lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I’ve come to believe in.”

— Jodie Foster

123. “Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.”

— Jodie Foster

124. “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.”

— Jodie Foster

125. “Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.”

— Jodie Foster

126. “I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.”

— Jodie Foster

127. “As an actor, I’m always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I’m always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people’s lives and how they intertwine.”

— Jodie Foster

128. “I didn’t have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”

— Jodie Foster

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

— Jodie Foster

130. “But now I really don’t want to work unless I really, really care about a project.”

— Jodie Foster

131. “I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.”

— Jodie Foster

132. “Part of me longs to do a job where there’s not a gray area.”

— Jodie Foster