24 Pedro Almodovar Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pedro Almodovar

Spanish Director

Born: Sep 25, 1949

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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

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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

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I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them. Pedro Almodovar

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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. Pedro Almodovar

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The life I live due to my work is difficult to share. Pedro Almodovar

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I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship. Pedro Almodovar

Relationship Think Part Always Any Romantic Utopia

For there to be communication within a couple, it is enough for there to be only one person who communicates or who really wants to communicate. Even though a couple consists of two people, if one of the people in a couple puts all their effort into moving a couple along they will move along. Pedro Almodovar

If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films. Pedro Almodovar

Made Before Films Characters Would Like Dead Been Lived

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. Pedro Almodovar

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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. Pedro Almodovar

Cinema has become my life. I don't 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. Pedro Almodovar

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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. Pedro Almodovar

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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. Pedro Almodovar

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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

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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

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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. Pedro Almodovar

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