Xavier Dolan Quotes

The last time when I was in a relationship, I used to talk about it, but the spotlight gets to your personal life. Wherever you go, people ask the same question. At times, it gets difficult. You work so much on a film, and people only want to know about your personal life. I feel bad that they don't talk about your work, but it's part of my job.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

I've seen a lot of my friends go through different reality shows, and they just get caught up in a lot of stagnant positions, unfortunately.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Celebrity damages private life.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.