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

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

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

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 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.