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

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.

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.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

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

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.