Jodie Foster in TVMovie

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EB: "Home for The Holidays" is your first movie, in which you only directed but did not act. Are you weary of acting? Will you produce movies in the future?

JF: For heavens sake, no! I've been co-producer of "Das Wunderkind Tate" (Little Man Tate), but that's nothing for me. Directing is more pleasing, but there's nothing that liberates me more than acting. I can imagine to do both in the future.

EB: You know the business from before and from behind the camera - is there anything left that can intimidate you?

JF: Sure. Before every directing job I'm fluttering. At "Familienfest..." I really was anxious the first day.

EB Anxious? What for?

JF We met for the first sample. One was late. So we stood around and waited silently. I saw all the actors in a room, one ego bigger than the other. How should I bring them all together? But then I told myself: Plough yourself through. Cling to the text, and flatten everything standing in your way.

EB: Ah, the perception of force?

JF: That has nothing to do with force. It's the job of the director to take over the word of command.

EB: In your directing work it's about conflictful, personal relations...

JF: ... because that's what's most fascinating for me. And where it's missing, I try to build such into the story. Nothing interests me more than what happens between two people, how strange they behave, how they're lying to each other. Why they say the one thing but mean something completely different. I find it more exciting than any action story.

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