I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.

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.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.