Jodie Foster

I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.