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Ellar Coltrane Biography

Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994), known professionally as Ellar Coltrane, is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood (2014), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.

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I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Acting, Creative, Like, Lost

So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.

Hatred, Mean, Pain, Thing, Things, Violent

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.

Acting, Art, Emotion, Famous, Incredible

My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us. " I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

Agency, Aunt, Fashion, Five, Said, Talent

People in New York just go about their business. Maybe living there for a long time, it would get lonely, but there's something really nice about being able to go about your business and not feel like anybody is really paying attention to you or what you're doing.

Like, Lonely, Maybe, New York, Nice, People

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.

Games, Ignorance, Movie, Screen, Seen, Self

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

Film, Finished, Frame, Watched

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Art, Inspired, Real, Vulnerable

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel. " But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Forced, Kids, Rebel, School, Think, Thinking

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

Children, Hopefully, Keep, Star, Stars, Straight

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.

Creating, Drawing, Gives, Painting, Things In Life

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

Become, Film, Pretty, Scary, Self, World

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

Artist, Kind, Raised