Jodie Foster: 'I want to give up acting'

Jodie Foster has revealed that she is considering giving up acting to instead focus on her work as a film director.

Foster, who has been acting since 1968, admitted that she has been in the film industry for so long that she is now looking for a new challenge.

"I've reached that point where i don't want to act very much anymore," Foster told The Hollywood Reporter. "I am much more interested in holding off on acting, after 45 years as an actor.

"It's a long period of time to do the same thing," she added.

Foster recently spoke out about her friend Mel Gibson, who faced a storm of media criticism last year, insisting that she will "always love" the actor.

Despite her desire to move behind the camera more regularly in the future, Foster recently signed up for a role opposite Matt Damon in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium.

Gibson's new film The Beaver, also starring Mel Gibson, is due for release in the US on May 20