I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

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 difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

To continue what one had been doing -- which was Dante's idea of hell -- is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

Beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.