"Even though I love my mother, I didn't……" — Pedro Almodovar
"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities."
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44 Quotes by Pedro Almodovar
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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…
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they…
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Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time…
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I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the…
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
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All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
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My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are…
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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
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Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the…
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More Defects Quotes
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet…
— Joseph Addison
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects…
— Albert Camus
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather…
— Margaret Halsey
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