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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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" 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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Reality

" 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

Simple

True

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Women

Directing

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Pedro Almodovar

Memory

Looking

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

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

" 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. "

Pedro Almodovar

Freedom

Money

" 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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See

Film

" 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 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. "

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

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Difficult

Work

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

" 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

Mother

" 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. "

" 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. "

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