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"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. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve reached that point where i don&amp;#039;t want to act very much anymore,&amp;quot; Foster told The Hollywood Reporter. &amp;quot;I am much more interested in holding off on acting, after 45 years as an actor. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a long period of time to do the same thing,&amp;quot; she added. Foster recently spoke out about her friend Mel Gibson, who faced a storm of media criticism last year, insisting that she will &amp;quot;always love&amp;quot; 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&amp;#039;s Elysium. Gibson&amp;#039;s new film The Beaver, also starring Mel Gibson, is due for release in the US on May 20.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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