In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
The Russians are a very sentimental people.
It's a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in 'Burnt By The Sun' at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.