Jodie foster

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

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

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

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

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...

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.