Timur Bekmambetov Quotations

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

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, it's a drama.

It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

Good fighters, they are so professional and quick, you can't see what's happening. It's very important: the fight is like a dialogue. Everybody has a line and an answer.

The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

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