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

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

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

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.