21 Quotes by Ellar Coltrane

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing. Whatever that is, it is what I want to do.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.