Jodie Foster Quotes

I've pretty much grown up on set, and my favorite part about it is being able to actually see how movies are made. I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school. It kind of feels like it's been a long time coming.It's a relief to actually be in, because the college process is so hyped-up.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I want to make films.

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

I definitely want to go the route of feature films.

Waiting is always a part of people involved in the film industry. Be it on the floor, in the make-up room or at home. All my life I have waited for a good role.

I want to be able to make a movie.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!