Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

— Pedro Almodovar

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of…

— Pedro Almodovar

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very…

— Pedro Almodovar

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and…

— Pedro Almodovar

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not…

— Pedro Almodovar

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

“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

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human…

— Pedro Almodovar

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and…

— Pedro Almodovar

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

“To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men…

— Pedro Almodovar

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line,…

— Pedro Almodovar

When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so…

— Pedro Almodovar

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who…

— Pedro Almodovar

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

— Pedro Almodovar

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to…

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar