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.

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

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.

Think of what you desire out of life.

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

Bring your dreams into reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes to make your dreams come true. Start now and work with ambition for total success. Aim high and make it happen.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.