The Canadian director was very angry at an interview with El Mundo in which he seemed to announce that he was retiring.

Despite the fact that director Xavier Dolan is best known for his rather pessimistic view of today’s world, thean interview conducted by the newspaper El Mundo in which the Canadian filmmaker seemed to announce his retirement Because of the “uselessness of art” and the “waste of time” that cinema represents, it ended up driving him mad.

This is why Dolan has decided to provide several details via his account instagram, in which he qualifies the inflammatory statements published by the Spanish media. “After the statements published in the Spanish media El País and El Mundo, I would like to make several clarifications. The first: I’m fine, really.”

“I said that I wanted to stop making films and I feel at peace with this decision”, explains the director, who clarifies that this does not mean that he will retire, but that he will concentrate on the production of television series. . “I am involved in several television projects because I also want to devote time to my health, my family and my friends.”

In addition, he also wanted to pull the ears of the journalist who interviewed him for El Mundo transcribing part of the “34-minute conversation” she had with him, specifying his remarks on the lack of use of art or the little use of cinema.

“I believe that cinema saves lives”

“From the whole conversation, the journalist retained the sentence: ‘Art is useless and devoting oneself to the cinema is a waste of time.’ The first part of the sentence is a generalization and the second a pure invention. They also said, “I want to build a house in the countryside with my friends and watch the world die. But I never said that”, explains the director.

“I don’t consider art useless, any more than I consider cinema a waste of time.. I believe it offers remedies for our suffocating lives and saves lives. I will always be there to offer support to artists and directors. But I don’t want to make movies anymore because it doesn’t make me happy. But they did it, and so did you,” said Xavier Dolan.