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

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.

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.