I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

Steven Soderbergh really likes Irréversible, that's about all I can tell you. About the making, well, it was a very particular situation, because those people all know each other, and they're all big stars. I felt like the little French guy, really. And I was very flattered to be called on that, of course, but I felt like if I didn't find something to be a little original, different, particular in the movie, I would just disappear.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.