If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

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

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

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

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