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.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

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 think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.

I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

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

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