Also the theme of abandonment is a really big one for me.
But also, as time goes on, you realize that you are better cast for certain things more than others.
But DVDs are really should be about the director. As an actor, there's only so much I can contribute really.
But I try to do them all in French, because, you know, I - it's a big part of my personality, the French thing.
But it's also partly that I'm picky because I am now over 40 and there's less parts so I only want to do the ones that really move me.
But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
But when you dub in France you do it with the other actors, so you're in the room with them, which is quite wonderful. And sometimes it takes on a different life of its own.
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
I did films because I loved making movies, and I love movies. I love the language of films and I would be just happy being a technician or a theatre director. Just to be involved with films.
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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 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.
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 get really embarrassed because I was such an unattractive teenager with pimples and a funny nose. It's like someone seeing your old home movies.
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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 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.
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
I love Fincher, have known him for a long time, have wanted to work with him for ages and I followed what he does.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
I mean, my mom took me to R rated movies when I was young and - because she knew me and knew the films well and knew that they were - they might have been provocative and they might have been serious and dramatic, but that they weren't damaging.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.
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 it would be nice to dub some French movies occasionally or European movies just to see how an audience might react to them, to see if you could maybe get people in different parts of the country interested in foreign films.
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
I went to private school and wore a uniform. I wasn't sheltered because I saw everything and knew everything. But I was raised very conservatively and it definitely didn't trick over into my own life at all.
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 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'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
I'm a really good flyer. I like airplanes.
I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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.
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.
Maybe in your 20s, because people bring baggage to it, there's a wider range of things you can do. When you're older, you know about the things that you're good at.
My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
Sometimes I make mistakes and do bad things but that's part of the process too.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
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.
The thing about child actors is that you either have the weird personality that can do it and remain well adjusted and have a real strength of character, or you just don't have that make up.
There's definitely less roles for you when you get older. The same is true with men too. You write a book, you usually write about the ages between 20 and 35. In terms of box-office and demographics, those are the kinds of people that see the movies and want to see themselves reflected.
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.
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.
You hope your movie encourages people to be more involved, more open and better.
You want to leave your movie after 55 days of shooting and feel like you're a better person and not a worse person and that's your first impulse.
Jodie was the second choice for the role of Princess Leia Organa is 1977's Star Wars. The part was given to Carrie Fisher.
Jodie turned down Sharon Stone's lead role in the 1992 steamy thriller, Basic Instinct.
Jodie is a member of the high IQ society, Mensa.
Jodie founded a 1992 production company in Los Angeles, called Egg Pictures.
Jodie won her first Golden Globe and took home an Academy award as well for 'Best Actress' for her role as a survivor of a gang rape who testifies against her attackers in 1990's The Accused.
Jodie had made fifty film and television appearances by the time she started college.
Jodie was due to be the president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, but had to back out, due to only having nine days to prepare for her starring role in Panic Room.
Jodie received an honorary Degree in Arts from Penn State in 2006.
Jodie had to pull out of 1999's Double Jeopardy, so Ashley Judd replaced her.
In the summer of 2005, Foster appeared as #51 on Entertainment Weekly's annual Must List with the subtitle, "Back in Action," for her work in Flightplan.
In March of 2006, Jodie Foster appeared in the movie Inside Man, which also featured Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
Foster ranked as #12 on Entertainment Weekly's 2005 Entertainers of the Year list for her return to Hollywood in Flightplan. Foster's title in the magazine was "Fly Girl."
Her star was put on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000.
Her Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling from her 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs was ranked #6 in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of 'The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains'.
She received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1997.
She graduated in 1980 as the class valedictorian from the private academy Lyc?e Fran?ais in Los Angeles and delivered the graduation speech in perfect French.
Recieved a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985.
Jodie got the role of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs, (1991) after Michelle Pfeiffer turned it down.
Her sister, Connie was her stand-in during the more explicit scenes in Taxi Driver.
John Warnock Hinkley Jr. attempted to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Hinkley was obsessed with Jodie. In 1980 after reading an article about her in People Magazine, he enrolled in a writing course at Yale to be near her. On March 30, 1981 he wrote a letter to Jodie of his plans to assassinate President Reagan, which he attempted later that afternoon.
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