19+ Xavier Dolan Quotes On Education, Art

Xavier Dolan is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume designer, and voice actor. He is best known for his feature films I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats, Laurence Anyways, and Mommy, which won the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He has also acted in films such as Tom at the Farm, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, and It's Only the End of the World. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Xavier Dolan on love, life, education.

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

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. — Xavier Dolan

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 cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things. — Xavier Dolan

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. — Xavier Dolan

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

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

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

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

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. — Xavier Dolan

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. — Xavier Dolan

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. — Xavier Dolan

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer — Xavier Dolan

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

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. — Xavier Dolan

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. — Xavier Dolan

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

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting. — Xavier Dolan

I love women in my heart but not in my undies. — Xavier Dolan

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie. — Xavier Dolan

Life Lessons by Xavier Dolan

1. Xavier Dolan's work shows that it is possible to make a successful career as an actor and filmmaker, even when starting out young.
2. His success demonstrates the importance of hard work and dedication in achieving one's goals.
3. Dolan's work also highlights the power of storytelling and the impact it can have on audiences.