Jodie Foster

They're just throwing fear at you and you reject that to become your own person.

So did you ever take her advice of always flattering men?

No, but I certainly knew when there was a drunken guy in a bar who I knew to say something nice and try to change the subject.

you know, leave as quickly as I could.

I think like any woman who wants to save their life, we know that historically we are in danger.

Why do you want me to go back to my parents?

I mean, they hate me.

Why do you think I split in the first place?

There ain't nothing there.

Didn't you ever hear of women's lib?

Well, you know, at 12 years old, my mom, if you saw Paul Schrader at that time, he really was Travis Bickle, right?

He wore that army jacket and he mumbled a lot and he stayed up all night and stayed up for hours and hours at a time.

My mom didn't want me anywhere near Paul

She was like, don't talk to him, whatever you do.

That's funny because it's like you can play a prostitute who's 12 years old in the movie, but don't talk to the person who wrote this.

Well, yeah.

Look, I was an actor.

I finally understood through working with Robert De Niro because he really took the time to show me what acting was, that it wasn't just saying lines that somebody else wrote, that it actually was creating a character.

I didn't know that before I was 12.

Yeah.