Xavier Dolan Quotes

For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

Xavier Dolan

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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

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• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

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• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

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• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

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• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

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• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

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• How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

  

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• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

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• I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.

  

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• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

  

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• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

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• I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

  

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• When the surf is really good, it's hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf - I won't get anything done if I get the fever. Then it's like I come into work and I'm wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.

  

  Chris Carter
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• We tried to work on being ruthless, just hitting the top of off-stump consistently.

  

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• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  

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• Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
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  • Food
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• For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Characters
  • Humane