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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
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