I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
Faith is important to me.
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Music is what our feelings sound like.
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the perfor...
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.