I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

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.

Seek to know the history of the sacred souls.

You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.