I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.