American - Actress | November 19, 1962 -
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.
Jodie Foster
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There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
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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.
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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
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I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
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All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
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I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
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Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
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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.
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The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
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