If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.