I don't feel any connection to Russia.

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

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

I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.

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

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 not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.