If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.
For us, the best time is always yesterday.
I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.
If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.