I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working..

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a f….

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously inf….

I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so ….

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice an….

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark ….

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind..

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people..

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place..

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even ….

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors..

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know..

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about you….

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called….

I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sens….

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers we….

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars..

There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I real….

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it..

I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, bec….

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive an….