Xavier Dolan Quotes

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn't really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn't, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?