Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

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

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

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