Anton Yelchin

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.”

“Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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