I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

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

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

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

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'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.