The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

You can't escape from what you are.

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

The thing is, as an actor, I get bored a little bit. I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

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.

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.