When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

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.

Nature has no beauty forbiddenManmade concrete slab: guilt-riddenWings or leaves whatever we may careThose limbs with the birds only trees will share

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.