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Anton Yelchin Biography

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin[a] (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known as Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: the first film, Star Trek (2009); the first sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013); and the posthumously released Star Trek Beyond (2016). He was also known for his work in independent cinema.

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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.

Actors, Character, Characters, Fit, Jobs, Thinking

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.

Flower, Flowers, Orange, Sometime, Years

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.

Agree, Like, Morning, Thinking, Two, Yeah

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.

Country, Like, Russia, Russian, Sometimes

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

Good, Ice, Ice Skating, Skating, Tried

Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.

Girl, Grade, Know, People, School, Wait

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Feels, Lucky, Working

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

People, Interesting, Lucky, Material

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.

Atoms, Crazy, Drive, Moving, Teenager, Teenagers

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.

Bring, Ebay, Nut, Order, Point, Weekend

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.

Abjected, Cinema, Dark, Etc

There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part of me where I'm like, "I really didn't like that movie, but I want to work with that director because he loves actors. "

Actors, Critical, Directors, Nerd, Parts, Two

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.

Growing, Growing Up, Parent, Should Have, Skating, Structures

I think any time you're in a new relationship, there's so much to look forward to.

Look, Looks, New Relationship, Relationship, Thinking, Time

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

Fun, Having, Meant, Think, Thinking, Writing

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

Frightening, Generations, Lives, Long, Taken, Thinking

I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux. . . it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.

Inspiration, Thinking, Italian, Dali, Origin, German

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.

Ifs, Important, Movies, Part, Recognize, 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.

Beauty, Definitions, Drawn, Human, Promise, Thinking

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.

Guitar, Money, Moving, Music, Simple, Soul

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