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

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.

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.

Art is a delayed echo.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.