The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.
I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.
I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.
Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.
I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.
I don't feel any connection to Russia.
I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
I love Andy Warhol!
I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.
I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
