I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.
Jodie Foster

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

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

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

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
Jodie Foster

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

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster

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.
Jodie Foster