"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."

"The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature."

"Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul."

"Music is what our feelings sound like."

"Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class."

"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."

"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."

"They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars."