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" I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie. "
Pedro Almodovar
Part
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Every
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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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" The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika. "
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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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" 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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" I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. "
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" Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films. "
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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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" 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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Change
Time
" My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time. "
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Me
Looking
" 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 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. "
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" 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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Places
Long
" All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. "
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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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" 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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" 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 think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. "
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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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