Marthe Keller

Kicked off the film career of Jessica Chastain, by recommending her to Al Pacino. He says she told him, "There's this girl at Juilliard." He then cast Chastain in his play "Salome" and his long-awaited epic film Salomé (2013).

One evening, a 35-year-old woman in tennis shoes and an old sweater rang the doorbell, stuck a foot in the door and said: "I want to kill you - your son, as well!" The cops arrested her - and told me she wasn't dangerous. I replied: "That woman had a gun. Next time, I'll phone you after I'm dead." I later learned she was a frustrated actress.