Latest Anton Yelchin Quotes from Interviews

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

  Anton Yelchin

  New Relationship, Thinking, Looks

• And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

  Anton Yelchin

  Views, People, Culture

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Anton Yelchin

  School, Teens, Punk

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors."

  Anton Yelchin

  Two, Nerd, Directors

  Source: waytooindie.com

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

  Anton Yelchin

  Directors, Actors, Sensitive

  Source: waytooindie.com

• I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

  Anton Yelchin

  Morning, Thinking, Two

  Source: waytooindie.com

• I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

  Anton Yelchin

  Voice, Trying, Archives

  Source: waytooindie.com

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

  Anton Yelchin

  Share, Movie Sets

  Source: waytooindie.com

• I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

  Anton Yelchin

  Dark, Cinema, Etc

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.

  Anton Yelchin

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.

  Anton Yelchin

  Weekend, Order, Nuts

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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

  Anton Yelchin

  Photography, Film, Mediums

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.

  Anton Yelchin

  Inspiration, Thinking, Italian

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, Promise, Definitions

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

  Anton Yelchin

  Flower, Orange, Years

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)

  Anton Yelchin

  Mean, Emotional, Self

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

• 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.

  Anton Yelchin

  Girl, School, People

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

• 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.

  Anton Yelchin

  People, Ems, Heritage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

  Anton Yelchin

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

• The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.

  Anton Yelchin

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Anton Yelchin Talks BURYING THE EX, Working with Joe Dante, and the Tone of the Film; Plus His Thoughts on Getting a New Director for STAR TREK 3". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

• 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.

  Anton Yelchin

  Thinking, Important, Ifs

  "Anton Yelchin Talks BURYING THE EX, Working with Joe Dante, and the Tone of the Film; Plus His Thoughts on Getting a New Director for STAR TREK 3". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

• 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.

  Anton Yelchin

  Kids, Forgiving, Mind

  Source: collider.com

• The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

  Anton Yelchin

  Moving, Simple, Guitar

  Source: collider.com