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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. "
Pedro Almodovar
School
Society
Life
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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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" I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie. "
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" 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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" I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. "
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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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Before
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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 mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. "
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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
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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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Work
Story
" 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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Reality
Loneliness
" 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. "
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Effort
Communication
People
" 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
" 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. "
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Remember
Myself
Brother
" 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
" 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. "
Pedro Almodovar
Flower
Change
Time
" Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. "
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Cinema
Your
Life
" 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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Me
Light
Photography
" The life I live due to my work is difficult to share. "
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Difficult
Work
Share
" 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 Can
Long
Process
" Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. "
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He
Women
Directing
" 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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Myself
Movies
I Am
" 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
" 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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Working
Prepare
Play
" 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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Tell
Successful
Director
" 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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Face
Problems
Talk
" I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. "
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Think
You
Passion
" 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
" 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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Film
Emotion
Feel
" All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. "
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Mixing
Because
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" I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask. "
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