If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

I speak a little bit of Russian.

I'm very excited about some of the novels that I have adapted. I think they're equally as powerful, if not more. Going After Cacciato (by Tim O'Brien) is something I'm very passionate about.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

I didn't have a heart until I meet you.That smile is killin me too.I can't look away.Can I always stay?I can't look away.I need to stay.I didn't have a heart until I meet you.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

I don't feel that we have any choice but to see the Love and the Light that exists within every person.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

Don't listen to experts.

I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it?

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.