Timur Bekmambetov

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race…

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the…

— Timur Bekmambetov

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.…

— Timur Bekmambetov

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and…

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody…

— Timur Bekmambetov

'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a…

— Timur Bekmambetov

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this…

— Timur Bekmambetov

If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Timur Bekmambetov