82 Quotes by Anton Yelchin

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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