There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.