Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, madam. And one can't be stingy with these things, because… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I don't know if All About My Mother is my best film yet. I haven't had time to analyse it. If you… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line,… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Even people who work with me don´t know who I´m dating. I just don´t talk about it so that I won´t implicate others. Just… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk. — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
