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Jodie Foster

"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Donna Grant

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Donna Grant

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

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Donna Grant

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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Donna Grant

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."

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Donna Grant

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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Donna Grant

"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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Jodie Foster
"I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends."

Family

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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."

Life

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Jodie Foster
"I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films."

Love

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Jodie Foster
"I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about."

History

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Jodie Foster
"I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older."

Parents

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Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."

Cruelty

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Jodie Foster
"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles."

Work

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Jodie Foster
"My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant."

Life

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Jodie Foster
"It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me."

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Jodie Foster
"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."

Business

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