Vsevolod Galkin

I have always had this complex — cinema. I got over it and realized that with filming everything is nice and easy. If you have something to say, you say it… If you don’t — you just come up with another “Lubov morkov”.

Maybe, I’ll become a Russian Pedro Almodόvar, maybe, I’ll start making independent movies just for myself, going to various festivals, and only there will I be told how deep and awesome it all is.

In Russia, sophisticated movies just don’t seem to get through to the audience: the cinemas are empty and it’s none of the distributors’ fault.

The true artists always make great debuts. It’s the experiences of your whole life that you’re finally getting to share. The second album or movie is often a failure, because that is what you do as a kind of “engagement”. And only very few find the way to cross this line and get on with it.

Heart-searching and self-analysis are a waste of precious time. The effort you use to try and make sense of what’s going on in your life might as well be used for something better than that.

Photography gave me the sense of self-fulfillment that I never managed to find in music long time back. To me, everything the job of a photographer has got to it seems quite practical and reasonable.

The “Seva Galkin” brand messes with my private life.

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is turning into an artisan. When you just earn your money and stack it away.

All artists are hysteroids. They long for attention. It provides the air that the imagination of an artist thrives on.

I love giving advice and lecturing other people. I can be plain with a person and point out the underlying cause. I do it every now and again, though quite a few people disagree with it. The stupid ones get offended, the smart ones — engage in self-reflection.

I don’t make one and the same mistake twice. The moment someone goes against my indispensable principles, I cut all the ties and never give them a second chance to correct the mistakes.

I am not afraid of going head over heels into something. I regularly get involved into the projects that seem to be financially impossible at first glance, and my own money is not going to be there forever either. I then start lighting up other people with the same idea, I tell them what’s so marvelous about it, and they help me out. I manage to find useful connections and the money I need.

My job became my hobby: no weekends, no leaves. My mind is constantly going on with something creative. Even if I am not busy with another film, I think about the ones that are still to come. It’s not bad, it’s just the way life goes.

The most important thing for an artist is his ambitions.

I will never go for downshifting. I am not ready to start my life all over again. It took me a long way to get to where I am now.