Jodie Foster Quotes

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.