--- title: Before Money Monster: Jodie Foster on Being a Woman Director description: The actress' latest venture behind the camera—rather than in front of it—is 'Money Monster.' 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The film is just the latest of Foster’s several turns behind the camera, a move she began to make 25 years ago. Back then, TIME explored Foster’s decision to direct in a cover story about the star and her film _Little Man Tate,_ in which she also starred. [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) At the time, Foster was 28 years old, and had been in the public eye for nearly all of her young life. As a child star, she had once told an interviewer that being a director sounded great, because “they get to do anything”: that meant they could “have people killed, blow things up, make people cry and laugh.” But, she said, the job was “a very masculine thing to do.” **MORE:** [This Forgotten Female Screenwriter Helped Give Hollywood Its Voice](http://time.com/4186886/frances-marion/) Then Foster went to college, graduated, resumed her career and found _Little Man Tate,_ a child prodigy story that spoke to something she knew firsthand. But, she told TIME, even as she embarked on a directing project herself, she knew the job was still seen as a “masculine” occupation: --- > “” --- **_Read the full 1991 cover story, here in the TIME Vault:_** [A Director is Born](http://time.com/vault/issue/1991-10-14/page/1/) **_Read the accompanying story about women breaking into the director’s chair in 1991:_** [Hollywood’s New Directions](http://time.com/vault/issue/1991-10-14/page/109/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4323987/jodie-foster-director-money-monster/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4323987/jodie-foster-director-money-monster/"},"headline":"Jodie Foster on Directing in 1991: 'This Is Not a Business That Is Kind to Women'","datePublished":"2016-05-13T12:30:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:24:36.370Z","description":"The actress' latest venture behind the camera—rather than in front of it—is 'Money Monster.' 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