Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

I'm curious and you know, I really think cinema is strong medium that allows you to go to so many different mental countries, not just geographical countries. As far as it allows me to express something of my own truth, it's fine for me. I can go to the moon.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things