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

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

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 was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

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

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 if they're about something else.

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

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

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, because it's become such an awful place.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

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

Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things.

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plansfor nobody.Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to, Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.

The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Landon Loucas Maxfield was asleep on his sofa. With me.