It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

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.

Literature is news which stays news.

Prayer is spirituality of the soul.

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.