I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.