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

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

And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

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.

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