Xavier Dolan

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Birthday:

20 March 1989, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Birth Name:

Xavier Dolan-Tadros

Height:

169 cm

Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as Xavier Dolan-Tadros. He is an actor and writer, known for J'ai tué ma mère (2009), Tom à la ferme (2013) and Mommy (2014).

[on directing oneself in a film] I don't want to be brash, but you just do it. It's not complicated. I love it. I sit down on the chair to d...Show more »

[on directing oneself in a film] I don't want to be brash, but you just do it. It's not complicated. I love it. I sit down on the chair to do the scene, and then I get up, ask for the playback. And if it's bad it's bad. If it's good it's good. I won't hesitate a second if it's bad. Show less «

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...Show more »

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. But pushed to the extreme. The edge. People are costumed. Its a disguise or something. For me, thats a sign of a loss of people believing in themselves, and of self-confidence. Show less «

Even the characters that seem so far away intellectually or socially, for me, when they speak, it will always be my words.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

[on Marion Cotillard] I have like a mega, mega crush on her. And I think we have a special connection too.

[on the bad reviews Juste la fin du monde (2016) received at Cannes] You're always ready for people not liking your work. But I feel that th...Show more »

[on the bad reviews Juste la fin du monde (2016) received at Cannes] You're always ready for people not liking your work. But I feel that there's a rather baffling misunderstanding. (...) If the guy who gives Creed (2015) five stars and "Fast and the Furious" four stars and-a-half is saying that Marion Cotillard is a bore in my movie, then it really is the end of the world. And you wonder what the fuck he's doing here. [2016] Show less «