The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in….

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes..

Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I do….

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad..

I don't feel any connection to Russia..

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set]..

I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to..

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid..

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege..

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread..

I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or wo….

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it..

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and….

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments..

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can..

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars..

And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and ….

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school..

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really….

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….

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 ….