I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

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

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.