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

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.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

When the law fails to serve us, we must serve as the law.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.

I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.