'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.

What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.