Anton Yelchin Quotes

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even if they're about something else.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

I've been really interested in focusing on the aspects of my Russian heritage I'm proud of. I'm actually em­barrassed to tell people I'm Russian, because it's become such an awful place.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.