Quotes by Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar

A dead love never dies.

Dies

Love Never Dies

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.

Awards

Mother

Perception

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

Eclectic Style

Genre

Mixing

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me – probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

Character

Exhibitionism

Talking

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

Arses

Down And

Helping

As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn’t been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She’s got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.

Character

Drama

Pain

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

Cinema

Loneliness

Space

Cinema has become my life. I dont 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.

Inspirational

Mean

Motivational

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.

Being Alone

Loneliness

Lonely

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.

Conscious

Mind

Writing

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Age

Arses

Awards

Bad Times

Being Alone

Believe

Brother

Challenges

Character

Children

Cinema

Conscious

Creative

Dies

Different

Directors

Down And

Drama

Eclectic Style

Editing

Exhibitionism

Faces

Facts

Female

Film

Firsts

Genre

Giving

Goal

Helping

Inspirational

Lines

Loneliness

Lonely

Love Never Dies

Males

Mean

Mind

Mixing

Mother

Motivational

Movie

Moving

Needs

Pain

Perception

Pity

Real

Risk

Sex

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Quotes by Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar

A dead love never dies.

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.

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

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

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

Cinema has become my life. I dont 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.

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.

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.

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