Jodie Foster was honored with a tribute award at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday, where she gave a touching speech in which she reminisced on her six decades in cinema.

After a reel played showing some of her most famous roles, including “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Panic Room,” Foster graciously accepted her trophy on stage.

“Watching all these clips, I thought to myself: I’ve been doing this job for quite a while now,” Foster said, after picking up the award from the hands of Bong Joon Ho and joking that she was going to ask him for an autograph. “I started in the 1960s, then I was lucky enough to experience the golden age of cinema in the 1970s. Then came the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and now we’re back in the 1970s again.”

Foster added, “It’s been a very long time indeed. A

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