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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 the naked eye would not have. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "