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

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.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

Great men are not always wise.

No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.