AP Entertainment

Los Angeles, 4 May 2016

1. Wide of the TCL Chinese Theater

2. Zoom in as Jodie Foster's star is revealed

3. SOUND UP (English) Kristen Stewart, Actress: "I watched 'Taxi Driver' when I was far too young to watch it and I know this because I was already saying that Jodie Foster was my favorite actress before I was cast as her daughter in a movie called 'Panic Room' when I was 10. Technically she was cast as my mom, which at 10 I thought just made perfect sense. I was like 'me and Jodie? Done!' She came onto the movie late and I was totally there to show her the ropes. She was my first adult friend that was mine."

4. Tilt up on Kristen Stewart and Jodie Foster

5. SOUND UP (English) Kristen Stewart, Actress: "She's a baller on every level. It's out-of-control. She did everything young. She kicked Yale's ass, she won Oscars, she became a filmmaker herself, she created a family and still is just normal and cool and kind. She got a mariachi band to play at my 11th birthday party, which I thought was very, very nice. She's always encompassed what I thought was the prime example of where you want to be and she's been there for me."

6. Zoom in on Jodie Foster posing for photos

7. SOUND UP (English) Jodie Foster, Actress/Director: "I don't know if you guys know this, but I grew up probably 10 blocks from here off Cahuenga and had to pass this street every day as I was on my way to school. And my mother told us if she ever found us on Hollywood Boulevard we probably shouldn't bother coming home, but we loved it. And it still has all of that excitement that it did as a child. The star ceremony is something that I've always thought of and dreamed of. I told my children when they asked me 'why don't you have a star on Hollywood Boulevard?' I said 'I was waiting to have the opportunity to have one as a director.'"

8. Tilt down on Jodie Foster kneeling on star

9. SOUND UP (English) Jodie Foster, Actress/Director: "But the especially nice thing is to be someone else's mother and to see them be here and be proud. And I get to say that I'm kind of Kristen Stewart's mother, which is a pretty awesome thing to be. It's just so wonderful to have watched her grow up. I have to say if I was ever going to be locked in an 8 foot by 15 foot room with someone I was really glad that it was Kristen Stewart."

10. Wide of Jodie Foster speaking to reporters

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jodie Foster, Actress/Director - on her bond with Kristen Stewart: "You know what? I knew it the minute I saw her. She just was an extraordinary child and I just kept thinking the whole time that I was basically living with her in a box that was 10 feet by 15 feet, thinking 'I just wonder what she's going to be like when she grew up?' And I was pregnant at the time so I had a lot of thinking about what a child would be and who she might be and all that kind of stuff."

Reporter: "Did she exceed your expectations?"

Jodie Foster: "She has. She's lovely and so supportive and she's herself, which always makes me happy to see somebody who's really them self and still is a major celebrity."

12. Tilt down and zoom in on Jodie Foster posing with her star

KRISTEN STEWART ON JODIE FOSTER: 'SHE'S A BALLER ON EVERY LEVEL'

Kristen Stewart first met Jodie Foster on the set of their 2002 thriller "Panic Room," but had idolized the Academy Award winning actress since childhood.

"I watched 'Taxi Driver' when I was far too young to watch it and I know this because I was already saying that Jodie Foster was my favorite actress before I was cast as her daughter in a movie called 'Panic Room' when I was 10. Technically she was cast as my mom, which at 10 I thought just made perfect sense. I was like 'me and Jodie? Done!' She came onto the movie late and I was totally there to show her the ropes. She was my first adult friend that was mine," Stewart recalled.

As Foster received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday (4 MAY 2016), Stewart was front and center to celebrate her long-time friend.

"She's a baller on every level," Stewart told the crowd. "It's out-of-control. She did everything young. She kicked Yale's ass, she won Oscars, she became a filmmaker herself, she created a family and still is just normal and cool and kind. She got a mariachi band to play at my 11th birthday party, which I thought was very, very nice. She's always encompassed what I thought was the prime example of where you want to be and she's been there for me."

After the ceremony Foster returned the praise:

"She's lovely and so supportive and she's herself, which always makes me happy to see somebody who's really them self and still is a major celebrity," said Foster of Stewart. "I knew it the minute I saw her. She just was an extraordinary child and I just kept thinking the whole time that I was basically living with her in a box that was 10 feet by 15 feet, thinking 'I just wonder what she's going to be like when she grew up?' And I was pregnant at the time so I had a lot of thinking about what a child would be and who she might be and all that kind of stuff."

Foster, whose many screen credits include "Taxi Driver" and "Silence of the Lambs," said she had hoped to receive the honor for directing rather than acting.

"I don't know if you guys know this, but I grew up probably 10 blocks from here off Cahuenga and had to pass this street every day as I was on my way to school. And my mother told us if she ever found us on Hollywood Boulevard we probably shouldn't bother coming home, but we loved it. And it still has all of that excitement that it did as a child. The star ceremony is something that I've always thought of and dreamed of. I told my children when they asked me 'why don't you have a star on Hollywood Boulevard?' I said 'I was waiting to have the opportunity to have one as a director,'" she said.

Foster's next project, "Money Monster," opens May 13. It is the fourth film she's directed and stars George Clooney as a finance guru taken hostage on live television while his producer (Julia Roberts), in the control booth, remains in his earpiece throughout the ordeal.