Jodie Foster

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 Schrader.

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

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.

I mean, I think that my mom knew he was a great artist.

We loved Mean Streets.

We saw it three or four times.

My mom saw that I was interested in art and cinema and took me to every foreign film she could find, mostly because she wanted me to hear other languages.

But, you know, we went to very dark, interesting German films that lasted eight hours long.

And, you know, we saw...

all the French New Wave movies.

And we had long conversations about movies and what they meant.

And I think that she respected me.

Yeah.

And some of them were inappropriate.

You know, some of them were moments I remember where she'd be like, why don't you go get, let's go get popcorn.

Because there were moments in the film that were not appropriate for a kid.