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.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

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

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

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)