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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.