Pedro Almodovar Quotes
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If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.
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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.
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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.
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Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
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The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.
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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 that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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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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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.
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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.
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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
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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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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.
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When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.
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I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.
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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.
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There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.
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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.
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In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
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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.
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Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
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Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
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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.