"When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard."
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"Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'"
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"I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character."
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"A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day."
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"In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people."
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"I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything."
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"There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever."
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"In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me."
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"I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with."
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"The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you."
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"Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although the individual is what interests him most, we are very far apart. His individuals are very different from mine; his problems are different from mine - but he's a great director. So is Fellini, for that matter."
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"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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"It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work."
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"I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change."
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"That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants."
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"It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally."
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"Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to me anymore. I've assimilated them - so, enough, they are a closed chapter. This also applies to film directors."
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"I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director."
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"I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired.""
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"Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they work."
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