Pedro Almodovar Quotes

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.

Pedro Almodovar

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• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Strong

• Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Desire
  • Fame
  • Away

• Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Style
  • Like
  • Look

• I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Why
  • Think

• Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Power
  • Political
  • Agenda

• If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Career
  • Myself

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Got
  • Punk
  • Spoke

• If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Know
  • Greed

• My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Band
  • Popular

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Dreams

• For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Political
  • Chaos
  • Prepare

• I am not famous at all.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Famous

• I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • School
  • Parents
  • Model

• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Moving

• Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell

• In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • War
  • Movie
  • Funny

• When she gets into negotiations with her European counterparts about trade arrangements, could she remind them that cake exists to be eaten and cherries exist to be picked.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • She

• I'm a self trained, autodidactic artist, so all I was ever trying to do was to draw as realistically as possible - but that's what comes out, because I don't really know how to draw! I think when I draw characters, I'm able to reduce them down to little marks that capture the most distinct elements of them.

  

  Box Brown
  • Trying

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Intelligent
  • Said
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Pedro Almodovar