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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
Being
Change
Creation
Directors
Empire
Every
Everybody
Exciting
Hard
I Love
Idea
Inspiring
Involved
Just
Like
Lot
Love
Part
Production
Respect
Same
Same Time
Say
Set
Time
Very
Vision
Want
Weird
Whatever
Working
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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
Adele
Beauty
Emotional
Everything
Feels
Hair
Her
Look
Molded
Organically
Own
Personality
Powerful
She
Thought
Through
Traits
Voice
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
~ Xavier Dolan
Aim
All My Life
Daydreaming
Family
Family And Friends
Friends
Get
Heard
Hurt
Life
Lower
My Life
Never
Over
Stop
Teachers
You
Yourself
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
~ Xavier Dolan
Absence
Almost
Appear
Cinema
Cinematic
Complete
Independent
Industry
Late
Money
Often
Patient
People
Places
Rare
Risk
Scenery
Sometimes
Space
Takers
Thankless
Thing
Very
Voices
Where
Who
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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
Act
Because
Change
Control
Control Freak
Directors
Everything
Facts
Films
Freak
Just
Know
Me
Never
Only
Scripts
Stupid
Think
Thinking
Try
Which
Will
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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.
~ Xavier Dolan
Drains
Dream
Enough
Film
Film-Making
Fulfilling
Just
Liberating
Lot
More
Only
Out
People
See
Spending
Temporarily
Thankless
Thing
Time
Times
Very
Want
You
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
~ Xavier Dolan
Another
Appropriate
Class
Codes
Dandy
Define
Different
Downtown
Dressed
Farmers
Live
Lot
Me
Order
Originally
Oscar
Oscar Wilde
Personality
Social
Social Class
Something
Then
Through
Unique
Which
Why
Wilde
You
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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
About
Characters
Credible
Developing
Endearing
Humane
Me
Mommy
Onscreen
Very
Work
Would
Would-Be
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'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
Aesthetic
Dresses
Film
Heartbeats
Hence
Look
Love
Magnifying
People
Reality
Vintage
Voluntary
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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.
~ Xavier Dolan
Background
Characters
Come
Costumes
Early
Era
Given
Gone
Here
History
Imagine
Lately
Mommy
Really
Shopping
Social
Strata
Thing
Very
Which
You
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Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
~ Xavier Dolan
Audience
Baseball
Bringing
Broader
Call
Change
Different
Diversity
Elevate
Gag
Homosexuality
How
Husband
Inside
Like
Our
People
Perceptions
Responsibility
Risk
Road
Share
Standards
Suddenly
Thing
Your
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
~ Xavier Dolan
Actually
Costumes
Design
Movies
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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
Actor
Cannot
Case
Direct
Easily
Enough
Eye
Find
Good
Hard
Horrible
I Can
Looking
Me
Myself
Performer
Perspective
Stand
Terrible
Themselves
Think
Watching
Whether
Which
Who
Work
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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
About
Asked
Dad
Forgiven
Found
I Think
Issues
Many
Mom
Past
Peace
Things
Think
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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.
~ Xavier Dolan
Amount
Cerebral
Everybody
Find
Largest
Movies
Myself
People
Personally
Relish
Very
Whatever
Wish
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I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that.
~ Xavier Dolan
Appearance
Because
Being
Distraction
Feel
Feels
Film
Force
Hate
I Feel
I Feel Like
Incorporated
Just
Like
Me
Mind
Myself
Never
Organically
Part
Really
Sort
Story
Stupid
Will
Wink
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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
About
Age
Anything
Background
Brought
Generation
Given
Lived
Me
Mother
Mothers
My Own
Own
Personal
Point
Portray
Relationships
Son
Think
Transformed
Up
View
Way
Women
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
~ Xavier Dolan
Adele
Art
Artists
Bad
Bad Way
Diva
Enjoy
Feel
Few
Greatest
Her
I Feel
I Feel Like
Industry
Like
Offers
Own
Risen
She
Status
Unique
Very
Voices
Way
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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
Big
Cheeks
Commercials
Four
Got
Grab
How
Ladies
Me
Old
Package
Part
Shot
Started
Stop
Street
Those
Would
Years
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
~ Xavier Dolan
Any
Broader
Classic
Entertainment
Except
Farm
Film
Hitchcock
Knowledge
Legacy
Made
Movies
Old
Seen
Sophisticated
Tom
Vertigo
Watched
Years
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