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

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

I love Andy Warhol!

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 and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over...

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

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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 and you don’t know what to say and...

I don’t feel any connection to Russia.

I’ve been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

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

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

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’ve been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

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 your movie and really want to...

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

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

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you’re growing up.

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 were so tortured.

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

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant...

I don’t hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

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

I love movies.

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

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

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

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