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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. "

Pedro Almodovar

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. "

" 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

" I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Pedro Almodovar

Memory

Looking

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

" 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. "

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

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

Pedro Almodovar

Difficult

Work

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Pedro Almodovar

Impossible

Work

" 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

" 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