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Pedro Almodovar  Quotes
Even though I love my mother, I didn’t want to make an idealized portrait of her. I’m fascinated more by her defects – they are funnier than her other qualities.

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HerMother
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It’s a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

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All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don’t like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

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I think it’s a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of...

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There’s something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn’t work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like ‘Les Miserables’ would be the last...

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I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.

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I don’t want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it’s to show one...

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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

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The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not...

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With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

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I ask myself questions that journalists don’t dare to ask or don’t know how to ask.

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I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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If I’d lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I’d made 16 films.

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La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

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Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can’t be stingy with these things, because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you’ve dreamed you are....

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I think my films are always political, even if I don’t put explicitly political things in them.

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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

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My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles – that’s me. Everything that’s in front of the camera, I bring you.

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To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider… To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be...

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For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if...

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I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

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The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.

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The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film...

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If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn’t fit me.

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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn’t seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other...

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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that...

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In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

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My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show...

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I think decor says a lot about someone’s social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work – and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

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The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It’s impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That’s very Spanish, the way in...

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I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It’s not a caprice.

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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first...

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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

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When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there’s...

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The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

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I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

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I’m an artist, and I’m part of every decision in a movie.

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Cinema has become my life. I don’t mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

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My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

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If I had not been successful as a director, then I’m sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

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Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It’s telling something in the story.

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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don’t know why I am more interested...

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Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it’s a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

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