I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

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

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!