Jodie Foster

I think I did have a skill that was beyond my years, and I had a strong sense of self.

So, you know, I'm not very good at math.

I'm not terribly good at science, but I did have a

almost like an idiot savant ability to understand emotions and character that was beyond my years.

Yes, and thank God I was acting.

So it gave me an outlet that I would not have had otherwise.

I had to develop.

It was a sink or swim.

I had to develop an emotional side.

I had to cut off my brain sometimes to play characters in order to be good.

And I wanted to be good.

You know, if I was going to do something, I wanted to be excellent.

So in order to do that, I had to learn emotions.

And I had to learn not only how to access them, but also how to control them so that I could give them intention.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He had a very Travis Bickle personality during that shoot, so he was pretty boring.

He was very awkward and very boring, and it was difficult for me.

I was a 12-year-old kid.

I was like, oh, God, here comes this guy again.