I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

To love life is to love all of it.

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

...the bones of cirrus clouds stand out like ribs against the sky - an angel is stretching...

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

The kingdom is where the King reigns. If He is reigning in my heart, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come to me.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it.