American - Actress | November 19, 1962 -
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
Jodie Foster
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It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
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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.
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
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I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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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 do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
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As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
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I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
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I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.
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