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" Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself. "
Xavier Dolan
Time
Voice
Cinema
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face. "
Xavier Dolan
Face
Past
Nature
" The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room. "
Xavier Dolan
Problems
Always
Script
" For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy. "
Xavier Dolan
Unique
Live
Me
" 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
" 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
" I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually. "
Xavier Dolan
Costumes
Movies
Design
" 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
" 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
" No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Movies
Fashion
" The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me. "
Xavier Dolan
Mother
Weekend
Relationship
" 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
" Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer. "
Xavier Dolan
Late
Welles
Lazy
" Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world. "
Xavier Dolan
Act
Myself
Over
" 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
" 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 got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started. "
Xavier Dolan
Age
Street
Stop
" I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy. "
Xavier Dolan
Unique
Feel
Enjoy
" 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 was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. "
Xavier Dolan
Kid
Movies
Art
" 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
" 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
" When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you. "
Xavier Dolan
Problem
End
Waiting
" For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Work
Credible
" When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s. "
Xavier Dolan
Childhood
Alone
Family
" 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not! "
Xavier Dolan
Vintage
Reality
People
" 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
" To me, the idea of success is to be able to work with people you admire. "
Xavier Dolan
You
Work
People