“I’m tired of this black… gray stuff that was filmed in the 1990s. It’s not that I was hoping to do something completely different, I just wanted to say – no, good gentlemen, look at yourself carefully, even in this life you can see a lot of wonderful things, and money is not the most important thing in life, but the main thing is something else .
What does a Russian person do in a critical situation? Either he goes to great lengths, then it’s bad for him, or he goes out on a path, then it’s bad for everyone around him. Or he invents his own world and hides in it. Here’s a short course in unscientific communism – you create for yourself an artificial environment in which there is no exchange rate…
No family troubles, no troubles at work. You lead a refined, pure existence. Look at the sky – there are stars, the sun rises and sets, that means everything is fine. From time to time we all need to go back to basics. That’s why hunting appeared in the film…
Any film you make is about a person. A person is always interesting. Any. One day I was walking down the street, and in front of me were two office clerks, the standard ones: suits, ties, briefcases. I hear a snippet of conversation: “…we’ve been racking our brains for two hours about how to easily make money…” That’s philosophy for you. Heine wrote: “Beat the drum louder, kiss the canteen more boldly. This is the meaning of life and philosophy.” And they have a meaning – it’s like money, but in an easy way… But it’s still interesting!” (“Nevskoe Vremya”, July 18, 2015)
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