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.

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

You are more powerful and intelligent than you think.

At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos.

The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

I've had to work for everything I have, and I'm not going to stop. The minute I feel I've made it, I'm done.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

Every run is a great run!

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.