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

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

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.)

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

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

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

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.