The Control And Understanding Of Our Personal

Flesh Sells. People Don't Want To See Pictures Of Churches. They Want To See Naked Bodies.

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

I Don't Throw A Lot Of Parties. I Find Throwing Parties A Bit Intimidating.

I'm Not Beautiful; I Clean Up Nice.

What You Want Is A Comfortable Environment That You Feel You Can Invent In. Because Film Is Such A Lumbering, Technical, Huge, Great Neanderthal Thing, It's Hard To Create That Little Space Of Peace, And Calm, And Creativity, And Ease. That's What You Want The Director To Create For You, So That When You Walk On The Set, You Forget All Of That, And The Fact That It's Costing Gazillions Of Dollars A Second.