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

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.

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.

It is a bird’s imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.

You change all the time. Everything changes you.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before.

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

My dissatisfaction with acting has nothing to do with being uncomfortable or vulnerable or feeling like people are going to criticize me. That's not the problem.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.