I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.