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

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

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

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

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

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

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.)