Pedro Almodovar

A dead love never dies.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I…

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working…

— Pedro Almodovar

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in…

— 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

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

— Pedro Almodovar

When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write…

— Pedro Almodovar

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly…

— 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

The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because,…

— 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

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens…

— 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

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…

— Pedro Almodovar

Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look…

— Pedro Almodovar

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this…

— 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

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

As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I…

— Pedro Almodovar

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

— Pedro Almodovar

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

— Pedro Almodovar

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

— Pedro Almodovar

An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

— Pedro Almodovar

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

— 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 want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

— Pedro Almodovar