“Tell Godard I’d love to work with him but I have a prior engagement.”

From a Haaretz interview with actress Jeanne Moreau in support of her latest film, One Day You’ll Understand, a partial list of directors she has worked with in the almost 60 years she has been making movies:Francois Truffaut, Orson Welles, Michelangelo Antonioni, Louis Malle, Jacques Demy, Luis Bunuel, Jean Renoir, Joseph Losey, Elia Kazan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Amos Gitai.

No Michael Bays (though she has worked with Luc Besson) or Ron Howards or anything of the sort. It’s enough to send a thrill up your leg, as Chris Matthews might say.