Best 17 quotes of Xavier Dolan on MyQuotes

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.

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

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

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. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

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

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 a genre or a style.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

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

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

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

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

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

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

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

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 dictated by the actor.

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

Tout est possible à qui rêve, ose, travaille et n'abandonne jamais.