In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

I read Russian literature a lot.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.