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
She was perhaps one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and yet her name will forever be linked to the horror of Nazi Germany. There is no other woman in the 20th century who has been so admired and vilified simultaneously.
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 love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down.
Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant, ... So something else has to really be important to drag me away. I have an identity that's very strong without being an actor. I don't need to do that just to be someone. I exist as a person without necessarily being an actor.
Once I had kids, my life with them became so significant,
I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.
It was like working on a cruise ship.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
Anna changes. That's something that neither Deborah Kerr or Irene Dunne could do. They had to start off soft and stay that way. In our version, she's sort of tough and stubborn, but as time goes on she softens.