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

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

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'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.