Russell Crowe Warns Autograph Seekers To Behave Outside Paris Hotel

5/26 -- 6:05 AM PT -- Russell Crowe has responded to the video of him outside his Paris hotel ... saying, in part, on X ... "Everybody got their autograph and selfie, the passage to the hotel was kept free for guests, and I still got to the airport on time."

Russell Crowe wasn't here for the absolute chaos outside his Paris hotel ... setting some clear boundaries with fans before he got to work signing their autographs.

Check out the clip ... Russell puts autograph hunters firmly back in their lane after the crowd started edging way too close for comfort -- barking out, "Stay where you are, don’t f***in push in on me. I’ll come to you. Give everyone space."

If that warning somehow wasn’t crystal clear ... he followed it up with a pretty simple policy: "As soon as somebody is a d***, I’m gone. We clear?"

Spoiler alert -- this wasn’t one of those celeb moments where everyone laughs and Russell suddenly starts happily signing away. Nope ... he still looked fully checked out, and things got extra awkward when one fan tried asking for a special sign and got flat-out rejected.