Pedro Almodovar Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
• My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
• Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.
• I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
• Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
• Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
• Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality…
• 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.
• 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.…
• There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
• 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…
• Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
• 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 make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.
• 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…

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