It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

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 think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)