Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, director and producer who has worked in films and on television. She has often been cited as one of the best actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at the age of three as a child model in 1965, and two years later moved to acting in television series, with the sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. being her debut. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in several primetime television series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth19 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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.
Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
I think I missed all of the wonderful things ... I missed the control that you have in film, and I missed getting it right, really getting it right, the way you hope people will see it. All of the things that people love about theater - the fact that it changes every night and that it's so spontaneous - all of those things just frighten me.
Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
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.
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.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.