Author of quotes: Andrey Airapetov

Speech “Request for Sincerity”

Directors of auteur cinema are smart-assed in general; they don’t give me any answers to my questions. “Oh, I’ll make it an open ending, leaving room for interpretation. Let the viewer find the answer within himself!” And I'm stupid. I don't have the answers inside. Kill someone at the end so I can see what the point is.

I don't blame my mother for raising me this way. No hard feelings. Because I saw that she was trying. She tried to be kind and talk about love. I tried to say “I love you” to me, but every time it turned out something like “Damn, you’re like family to me.”

I have an eternal desire to be useful. I always want to be useful. Because as a child I was not allowed to be like this. The women who raised me, they didn't explain who you could become, they explained who you would become right now if you didn't do what I needed. ... Strong women don’t explain how to do it right, they step by step, consistently, poke you into mistakes and do everything for you.

In general, I have a feeling that we love being heroes. We'd love to be survivors, you know? And preferably in spite of something. We were brought up on heroic deeds, we have monuments at every step.

Yes, I was raised by a strong woman, and therefore I grew up strong, but as a woman. And strong women do everything in spite of themselves, you know what I mean? Therefore, I do something not because I can, but because I will prove to everyone that I can.