Ansel Elgort

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you. ”

I like strong women. Physical women. ”

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career. ”

I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me. ”

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art. ”

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!' ”

From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star. ”

LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school. ”

Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not just a club DJ; I am a producer, and I'll only DJ when the crowd is there to enjoy the music. ”

East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable. ”