I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.

Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

We live in a world bathed in 5, 000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.

I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...