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148 | Jodie Foster on Building Truthful Characters

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Big Beautiful Idea in Here

"I always ask myself one question over and over and over again, whether it's as an actor or as a director," she says. "If you just keep asking yourself that question, is it true or is it not true? You know, all of those questions are really like an optician when you go to the optical place ... I'm pretty sure I'm going to come up with something when I get there." She adds: "That stops my trail of overthinking that's just polluting everything you're doing"

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