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

Pedro Almodovar

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

Pedro Almodovar

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

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

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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. "

Pedro Almodovar

" 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

" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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 no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way. "

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

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

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

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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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