Quotes from Anton Yelchin


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


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


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


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.


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



I love Andy Warhol!


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


I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.


I don't feel any connection to Russia.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.