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" I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible. "
Xavier Dolan
Money
Invisible
Film
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" I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment. "
Xavier Dolan
Legacy
Knowledge
Film
" It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by...' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too. "
Xavier Dolan
Work
Think
People
" Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world. "
Xavier Dolan
Act
Myself
Over
" I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me. "
Xavier Dolan
Think
Perspective
Myself
" Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions? "
Xavier Dolan
Change
Responsibility
Road
" Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more. "
Xavier Dolan
People
Want
You
" Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer. "
Xavier Dolan
Late
Welles
Lazy
" That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful. "
Xavier Dolan
Life
Grateful
Dreams
" My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron. "
Xavier Dolan
Children
Run
She
" I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background. "
Xavier Dolan
Mother
Age
Women
" Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional. "
Xavier Dolan
Shopping
History
Gone
" I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things. "
Xavier Dolan
Trying
Up
Always
" The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too. "
Xavier Dolan
America
American
Movies
" We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters. "
Xavier Dolan
Want
People
See
" For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Work
Credible
" It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.' "
Xavier Dolan
Work
Feel
Important
" My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons. "
Xavier Dolan
Fighting
Live
Love
" I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Love
Been
" The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room. "
Xavier Dolan
Problems
Always
Script
" When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19. "
Xavier Dolan
Blame
You
Me
" I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. "
Xavier Dolan
Costumes
Movies
Design
" Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality. "
Xavier Dolan
Beauty
Hair
Personality
" My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want. "
Xavier Dolan
I Can
Love
Language
" Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do. "
Xavier Dolan
Thinking
Change
Control
" Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. 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 cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things. "
Xavier Dolan
Battle
Society
Women
" All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends. "
Xavier Dolan
My Life
Yourself
Life
" I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in. "
Xavier Dolan
Very
Wish
Movies
" What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not. "
Xavier Dolan
People
Choices
Life
" It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Become
Father Figure
" I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that. "
Xavier Dolan
Myself
Stupid
Mind