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

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.

Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.

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.

Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.

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