The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.

Art comes from life, not from the studio