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.

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.

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.

Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don’t last!

A man that has not dealt with his foundation cannot deal with another man's foundation.

The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.