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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. "

Pedro Almodovar

House

Fact

Government

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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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" 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. "

" 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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Freedom

Money

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Pedro Almodovar

Light

Photography

" 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. "

Pedro Almodovar

Her

Mother

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Simple

True

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them. "