“I said: “Guys, there are such directors as Daneliya, Eldar Ryazanov, who have smart, funny, and at the same time dramatic things. We need to take an example from them, and the people will reach out to us even more.” There, after all, this could be done in a story with heroes. But they didn’t hear me. The directors and screenwriters told me that everything suits them. I think they were just interested in money. Therefore, I told them: “Let’s go on without me,” Anatoly Alexandrovich once recalled.
