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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. "

Pedro Almodovar

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

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

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

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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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" 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 thing I'd ever be interested in. "

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

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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 emotion. "

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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 person singular. "

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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 is full of tenderness and emotion. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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 in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why. "

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

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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 want a film to be a collage of all these images. "

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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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" 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 which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other. "

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