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

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.

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

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.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember.Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

.....we find ourselves inhabitants of the last few living cells of a dying god

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.