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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. "
Pedro Almodovar
Remember
Myself
Brother
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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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" Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. "
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Women
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Start
Success
" 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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Play
" The life I live due to my work is difficult to share. "
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Share
" 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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Best
Going
Hide
" 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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Her
More
Mother
" 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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Feel
" 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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Singing
Work
Need
" 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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Feel
Colors
Fake
" 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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Lens
Work
Naked
" 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. "
Pedro Almodovar
Myself
Movies
I Am
" 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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Flower
Change
Time
" 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. "
Pedro Almodovar
Leave
Mind
Movies
" 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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Think
Work
Story
" I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. "
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You
Passion
" I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. "
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Line
Movies
" 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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Me
Impossible
Work
" If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films. "
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Dead
Before
Been
" 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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My Life
World
Reality
" I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. "
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Spain
Time
Cinema
" 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. "
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Long Time
Places
Long
" You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject. "
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Different
Thousand
You
" My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time. "
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Memory
Me
Looking
" I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them. "
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Even
Always
Think
" Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music. "
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Dialogue
Broadway
You
" 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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House
Fact
Government
" 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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