Anton Yelchin Quotes
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I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
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I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
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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.
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I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.
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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."
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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.
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My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.
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One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
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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.
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You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].
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I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.
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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.
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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.
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I don't feel any connection to Russia.
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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.
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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.
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I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.
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I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.
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I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.
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I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
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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.
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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.
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In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.
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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.
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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.
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I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.
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