Timur Bekmambetov

Image of Timur Bekmambetov
If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Drama
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Depressing
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Problem
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Powerful
Image of 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 organic.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Ideas
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
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
Collection: Secret
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Character
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Reality
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
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
Collection: Character
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
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
Collection: Unique
Image of 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 knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Cities
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Character
Image of 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 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.
- Timur Bekmambetov
Collection: Real
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
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
Collection: Race
Image of Timur Bekmambetov
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
Collection: Development