I’m doing the best work of my life, says Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster thinks she's doing the "best work" of her career.

The 63-year-old star began her career as a child actor and has enjoyed huge success in Hollywood over the decades - but Jodie has suggested that she's now happier than ever before with her work.

The veteran film star told Variety: "I think I’m doing the best work of my life. And the dirty little secret is that I’ve never worked less in terms of my energy output. I just do what I think, and then I drink a coffee."

Jodie wanted to "challenge Hollywood wisdom" during her 20s. However, her mom proved to be a really healthy influence on her career and the choices she made.

She said: "I was trusting a creative instinct, and she was giving me the Hollywood wisdom. I want to challenge Hollywood wisdom. She was guided by fear and convention. It was really clarifying, at 27, to say, I am not going to listen to your fears."

Jodie was always motivated by a desire to impress her own mom.

The movie star explained: "I loved her, and she was an amazing manager and a brilliant woman.

"But I was a vicarious instrument. She was a pre-feminist woman who would have loved to have been taken seriously, to have been doing important things that were not about her looks."

Despite this, Jodie recalls suffering her own identity crisis as she approached her 50th birthday.

She reflected: "That awkward moment between 50 and 60 is just crazy — maybe it is for men too. You’re like, wait, who am I? And am I supposed to be like I used to be, except kind of worse?"

Meanwhile, Jodie previously insisted that she hasn't allowed fame and success to change her.

The actress has never diluted her real-life self in the pursuit of fame.

Discussing the secrets of her success on the Oscars red carpet, Jodie told ABC News: "[The key] I think mostly just be yourself.

"There's a lot of temptation to turn into somebody else and like, stick things in your face ... you know, hate yourself. I've just always been myself. Yeah, that's kind of all I do."

Jodie previously won the Best Actress in a Leading Role gong for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs.

Asked where she keeps her awards, Jodie replied: "They were in the bathroom but they got corroded. Now they're ... now they're in a nice place."