My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I ask myself questions that journalists don’t dare to ask or don’t know how to ask. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. Pedro Almodovar Read Quote