It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

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.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.

Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

Yes, It will be difficult. Yes, It will take enormous time. Yes, they will laugh at you. Yes, you will feel like giving up.Yes, you will win.

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.