Xavier Dolan Quotes

• I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.

  Xavier Dolan

  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

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• A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

  Xavier Dolan

  Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

  Xavier Dolan

  Love You, Thinking, Who You Are

  "Xavier Dolan’s Pleasure Principles". Interview with Durga Chew-Bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 26, 2013.

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• I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

  Xavier Dolan

  Heartbroken, Mistake, Impression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love women in my heart but not in my undies.

  Xavier Dolan

  Heart, My Heart, Undies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

  Xavier Dolan

  Eye, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

  Xavier Dolan

  School, Ghetto, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

  Xavier Dolan

  Meaningful, Writing, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.

  Xavier Dolan

  Moving, Decision, Atmosphere

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

  Xavier Dolan

  Art, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.

  Xavier Dolan

  Light, Decision, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

  Xavier Dolan

  Talking, People, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

  Xavier Dolan

  Writing, Film, Made

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• I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

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  Talent, Quebec, Young

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

  Xavier Dolan

  Philosophy, Style, Crafts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

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  Home, Writing, Aunt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

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  Directors, Different, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

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  Taken, Character, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

  Xavier Dolan

  Acting, Actors, Rooms

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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