Xavier Dolan Quotes
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I just want to do my job.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.
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Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
