Jodie Foster Quotes

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

The characters I play always seem eerily appropriate to where I am in my personal life at the time, and if they're not, there always tends to be this notion that I should be learning something to apply to my own life from these people.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

'Fitoor,' in a way, signifies my journey through the years. It's a collection of 10 songs that I have written. It's basically about what I have been experiencing.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I mean, he's one of the greatest characters I've gotten to play over my career, so there's a little bit of me in Zuko and a little bit of Zuko in me.

I've had to play characters who I absolutely disagree with, as far as their politics, as far as their religion, and their stance on certain social issues, I completely disagree with them. But I have to go in and find who they are and get to their core, into their truth, and have absolute faith and believe in that, in order to portray it. So you have to walk in a lot of different shoes, in that you can't help but have your mind open as a result of that.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.

It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.