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Pedro Almodovar (Film Director)

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

— Pedro Almodovar life

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

— Pedro Almodovar life

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 they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

— Pedro Almodovar life

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 talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why.

— Pedro Almodovar women

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

— Pedro Almodovar art

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 and your loneliness.

— Pedro Almodovar life

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

— Pedro Almodovar passion

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 the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

— Pedro Almodovar time

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

— Pedro Almodovar demons

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

— Pedro Almodovar time

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.

— Pedro Almodovar emotions

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

— Pedro Almodovar light

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 did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

— Pedro Almodovar age

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

— Pedro Almodovar life

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.

— Pedro Almodovar love

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

— Pedro Almodovar time

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. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

— Pedro Almodovar art

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

— Pedro Almodovar work

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 chosen to tell their story.

— Pedro Almodovar work

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

— Pedro Almodovar life

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

— Pedro Almodovar movies

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 correct it after.

— Pedro Almodovar writing

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

— Pedro Almodovar self

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

— Pedro Almodovar think

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

— Pedro Almodovar time

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