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" There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them. "
Xavier Dolan
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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History
Gone
" I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor. "
Xavier Dolan
Enough
Dying
Time
" In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter. "
Xavier Dolan
Mother
She
Only
" I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary. "
Xavier Dolan
Wish
Moment
Think
" 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. "
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Want
People
See
" It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud. "
Xavier Dolan
Me
Work
Trust
" 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 think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants. "
Xavier Dolan
Great
Work
Time
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Children
Run
She
" 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
" Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning. "
Xavier Dolan
Always
People
Meaning
" 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
" The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room. "
Xavier Dolan
Problems
Always
Script
" I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven. "
Xavier Dolan
Past
Issues
Mom
" 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
" 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. "
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People
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You
" 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. "
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Life
Grateful
Dreams
" Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world. "
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Myself
Over
" 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
" Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself. "
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Time
Voice
Cinema
" A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time. "
Xavier Dolan
Vision
Respect
Love
" '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