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

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors."

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.