“In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is ...” — Xavier Dolan Quote

“In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.”

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

“I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.”

“People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.”

“Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.”

“Bill Clinton is just as gross as Donald Trump - so much so that the Clinton campaign can't really back Trump into a corner on his integrity or mistreatment of women because Bill's personal history is so damn awful.”