Anton Yelchin

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 prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

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

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

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.

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

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

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

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.

I love movies.

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