I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
From Jodie Foster
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.
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.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
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