When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt that I wanted to have my Games. I understood that it wouldn't be easy to make them, especially now that in Russia there are a lot of strong girls.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.