I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast. by Jodie Foster

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and... by Jodie Foster

My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.

significant young kids

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

successful two people

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.

awkward hard-times years

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

narrative perfect beautiful

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm alwa... by Jodie Foster

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.

crazy mom children

There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

fool believe world

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

somewhere-else people thinking

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. by Jodie Foster

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movi... by Jodie Foster

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

popcorn mainstream ambition

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever. by Jodie Foster

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

forever work needs

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors... by Jodie Foster

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

listening directors

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological patter... by Jodie Foster

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

fate destiny thinking

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.

makeup mom home

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

live-life bigs character

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

acting two moving

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

focus different world

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

knowing fun kids

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

gender appreciate accomplishment

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

mom struggle beautiful

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.

reading should want