I don't feel any connection to Russia.

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 was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even if they're about something else.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, because it's become such an awful place.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.