If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

In April 2006 and again in December 2007 Binoche travelled to Tehran at the invitation of Abbas Kiarostami. Following Rendez-Vous Juliette Binoche was unsure of what role to take next. Binoche read a letter which pointed out that Panahi's detention was "unwarranted and intolerable".

In 2008 Juliette Binoche began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan. Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage most notably in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which Juliette Binoche was nominated for a Tony Award. Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996) for which Juliette Binoche was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival.