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All Quotes by author - Pedro Almodovar

" 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 that all of the success had not changed my perception. "

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

" 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 person singular. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along. "

" 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 places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 emotion. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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