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 Copy Share Image
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… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
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… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
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,… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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.… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
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… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
