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Xavier Dolan

(1989) Film Director

19 quotes in 113 categories

Xavier Dolan is a film director.

Quick Facts About Xavier Dolan

Born: March 20, 1989
Profession: Film Director

About Xavier Dolan

[Wikidata] Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)... | [Wikipedia] Xavier Dolan-Tadros is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother, which he also starred in, wrote, and

Quotes by Xavier Dolan

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…

Clique

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

Precocious

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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…

Battle

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

Anything is possible

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

Actors

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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…

Acting

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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.

Age

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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…

Abandoned

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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…

Acting

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

Emotion

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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.

Crafts

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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…

Art

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

Idiotic

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

Heart

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

Cinema

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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…

Acting

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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…

Aunt

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

Love

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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…

Behinds

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