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 Read Quote
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. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
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. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
If I had not been successful as a director, then I’m sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It’s impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That’s very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
I think my films are always political, even if I don’t put explicitly political things in them. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn’t fit me. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
