Timur Bekmambetov Quotes

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

I believe in making movies very inexpensively; I think that way too much money is spent on making movies. Enough movies are being made, but not enough experimental ones.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did 'Mars et Avril' for only 2.3 million.

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.