June 13, 2017 – Hollywood, California, U.S. – ANSEL ELGORT promotes ‘Baby Driver.’ Ansel Elgort (born March 14, 1994) is an American actor and singer. As a film actor, he played Tommy Ross in Carrie (2013), Caleb Prior in The Divergent Series (2014) and Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars (2014), November Criminals, Billionaire Boys Club, Dungeons & Dragons, Jonathan, Baby Driver. (Credit Image: © Armando Gallo via ZUMA Studio)
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On Music: Ansel Elgort, Scoring Movies in his Mind

Ansel Elgort, star of director Edgar Wright’s surprise summer hit Baby Driver, loves music so much that he admits that very often the line between music and acting gets blurred – something that his character in Baby Driver, a getaway driver/musician fueled by his carefully curated playlists, certainly understands.

“When I read scripts, I imagine music for them.  I am always scoring movies while I read.  I love music and I do want to score movies eventually too.  A dream of mine is to write, direct, star and score a movie. I know that is very ambitious and that is way in the future, but that is one of my dreams. I do hear music in my head.  All the time. I am hearing it now. (laughter) So in terms of the lines being blurred, this movie, Baby Driver was the perfect project for that. Perfect.”