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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster
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Jodie Foster
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 19
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Alicia Christian Foster
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Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
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I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person
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It was a weird moment in my life and a weird experience [doing a theater]. It made me think, Gee, I don't know if I ever want to do this again. And I love theater. I love going. I love the experience of theater. But I am not sure it's for me.
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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.
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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
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Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.
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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.
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It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.
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Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
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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.
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I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.
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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!
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I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.
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I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
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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.
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I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.
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There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
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I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
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