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What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.

Xavier Dolan

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Xavier Dolan
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: March 20
Actor
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Montreal
Quebec
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