When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes. Anton Yelchin More Quotes by Anton Yelchin More Quotes From Anton Yelchin The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege. Anton Yelchin ability privilege choices 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. Anton Yelchin handful dont-trust people 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 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. Anton Yelchin couple dark talking 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 mediums film photography 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 orange flower years 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 emotional self mean I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind. Anton Yelchin target mind heart 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 guitar simple moving I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working. Anton Yelchin lucky feels 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 archives voice trying 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 nuts order 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 etc cinema dark 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 important ifs thinking 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 One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread. Anton Yelchin nosferatu vampire war 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. Anton Yelchin growing-up parent should-have 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 two thinking 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 definitions promise thinking I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands. Anton Yelchin character hands thinking
