Jodie Foster Acting Quotations

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

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.

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

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.

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