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

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 most important thing is not to achieve success, but to keep it so that it would be stable

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

A river cannot boast to a sea.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

What matters the most is what you do for free

Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.