An overnight success is ten years in the making.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.