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.

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.

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.

You definitely can't forget everything that happened in your past. But you can place some positive interpretations on them, so that they don't control your present and future emotions and feelings.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Society is at odds with itself.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.