I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing.

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.