Timur Quotes

And stop smoking," I yelled after him. "You smell like cheap ham! ~ Timur Vermes

And oh, how a warrior drunk on victory can enchant a young woman. ~ Timur Vermes

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

Had I known back then just how cheap it was to employ Poles, I might as well have leapfrogged their country. ~ Timur Vermes

What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France. ~ Timur

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs. ~ Timur Vermes

I just think these people, everything they've been through, we should respect them ... By 'we', I mean people like Timur and me. The lucky ones, the ones who weren't here when the place was getting bombed to hell. We're not like these people. We shouldn't pretend we are. The stories these people have to tell, we're not entitled to them ... I'm rambling. ~ Khaled Hosseini

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

The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears. ~ Timur Vermes

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

'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

A large number of people had already gathered in the city centre to demonstrate against the government. Seemingly it had occurred to no-one to opt for the most obvious solution – stormtroopers. ~ Timur Vermes

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

He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital. ~ Khaled Hosseini

As I walked past I saw the extraordinary wreckage of beer-corpses. Somehow, despite all their economic mismanagement, these parties must have brought about an unexpected level of prosperity. Well, not having to wage war certainly saves the odd cost. Looking at the state of the Volk here, however, even the most deluded individual would have to admit than in 1942 or 1944, yes, even in the most harrowing nights of bombardment, the Germans were in better shape than on this September evening at the beginning of the third millennium. ~ Timur Vermes

In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity. ~ Timur Vermes

What kinds of truths were being hidden? Were there lying turnips? Were there lying leeks? ~ Timur Vermes

Scraps
The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant.

Timur Fazil ~ Idries Shah

Timur." She whispered his name. Knowing she shouldn't. Unable to stop herself. She waited until his blue eyes lifted to hers. "You're not a psychopath, nor are you what your father tried to shape you into. You're...extraordinary. ~ Christine Feehan

I had preached again and again that one must never finish off the east for good, that a certain element of conflict must always remain, that a healthy Volk needs a war every twenty five years for the renewal of its blood. ~ Timur Vermes

Such people never focus on their own goal, they always elect to pursue the goal which promises the most rapid success, and yet fail to recognise that this success will never be their own. ~ Timur Vermes

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

Your woman's a badass, Timur,"he said. "She can't cook worth shit, but she's a badass." [...] "Don't ever cross her," Jeremiah warned. "She knows more ways to kill a man than I do. Seriously, boss, don't do it." [...]"She's inventive when it comes to killing men."He beckoned Timur closer and waited for him to bend down. He looked left and right to make certain no one would over hear him. "You're so lucky, man. She's a total babe," he whispered. "She's a mankiller, and that's hot as hell. ~ Christine Feehan

As always when people are overtaxed creatively, they come up with the most dubious suggestions. ~ Timur Vermes

Silence is often underestimated ~ Timur Vermes

He looked confused. "With your girlfriend, I mean. Who was to blame?"
"I don't know," I said. "Ultimately Churchill, I expect. ~ Timur Vermes

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes. ~ Victor Robert Lee

Wherever there is a large motorway enabling the transport of ton after ton of German goods, you will inevitably find a sweet little rabbit trembling by the roadside. ~ Timur Vermes

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

It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand. ~ Timur

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

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

Someone with whom I was unacquainted had turned to me with a military problem, and as I was currently without a state to govern I decided to lend my comrade my support. Thus I spent the following three and a half hours engaged in a naval exercise by the name of "Minesweeper. ~ Timur Vermes

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

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

One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere. ~ Timur Vermes

There are always advantages to having reached a certain time in one's life. I am most pleased that I did not come to politics until I was thirty, an age when a man finds his peace physically and sexually, and thus can focus all his energies on his actual goals, without his time and steel forever being purloined by the impulses of physical love. ~ Timur Vermes

To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses. ~ Timur Vermes

In my opinion, only bakers need to work early in the morning. And the Gestapo, of course - that is self-evident. To tear the Bolshevist rabble from their beds, so long as they are not Bolshevist bakers. For they would already be awake, and thus the Gestapo, for their part, would have to get up even earlier, and so on and so forth. ~ Timur Vermes

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible! ~ Timur Vermes

In Berlin I have time and again met people who make no secret of the fact that their only reason for stirring at such an ungodly hour of the morning is so that they can leave the office earlier in the afternoon. I have suggested to several of these eight-hour logicians that they ought to start work at ten o'clock at night, thereby allowing them to leave at six in the morning and perhaps even arrive home before it is time to get up. ~ Timur Vermes

It's well-documented that stress and low self-confidence are detrimental to productivity, especially on tasks requiring creative thinking. Maintaining a healthy exercise routine saves time, creativity, and energy in the long run. ~ Timur Zhiyentayev

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire. ~ Colin McEvedy

One must choose the apposite moment to crush one's political opponent. Not when he has nothing to say. But when he is attempting to say something. ~ Timur Vermes

The Reichsmark was no longer legal tender, even though others - probably some clueless dilettantes on the side of the victorious powers - had clearly adapted my plan to turn it into a European-wide currency. At any rate, transactions were now being carried out in an artificial currency called "euro," regarded, as one would expect, with a high level of mistrust. I could have told those responsible that this would be the case. ~ Timur Vermes

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

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

You can forget Stalin," he said, pledging his allegiance. "We're not the History Channel. ~ Timur Vermes