One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.

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.

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.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!