Xavier Dolan Quotes

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I grew up without a father figure.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.