I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, 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.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

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

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