Bekmambetov Quotes

#1. I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

Dominic Cooper

#2. Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Mason Cooley

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#4. If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

Eddie Murphy

#5. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

#6. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

#7. He did indeed always refer to us as swine, but there was, nevertheless, a certain respect in his tone.

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?'
That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.

Daniel Ehrenhaft

#9. We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#10. But what was I supposed to do when the course I'd set myself on for so long didn't seem like the right one anymore?

Monica Alexander

#11. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

#12. I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

Timur Bekmambetov

#13. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

#14. I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments.

Andrew Levkoff

#15. I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

Selena Gomez

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#17. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#19. 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

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

Timur Bekmambetov

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

Timur Bekmambetov

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#23. 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.

Timur Bekmambetov

#24. '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.

Timur Bekmambetov

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#26. Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus