Pedro Almodóvar quotes

Pedro Almodóvar is a celebrated Spanish film director, screenwriter, and producer, renowned for his vibrant storytelling and unique cinematic style. His films often explore themes of desire, identity, and family, blending melodrama with dark humor. He has received numerous international awards and is considered one of the most influential figures in contemporary cinema. Here are 50 of his quotes:

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Pedro Almodóvar

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Pedro Almodóvar

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 Almodóvar

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 Almodóvar

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

Pedro Almodóvar

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.

Pedro Almodóvar

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Pedro Almodóvar

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 Almodóvar

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

Pedro Almodóvar

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

Pedro Almodóvar

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Pedro Almodóvar

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

Pedro Almodóvar

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

Pedro Almodóvar

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.

Pedro Almodóvar

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Pedro Almodóvar

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

Pedro Almodóvar

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 Almodóvar

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Pedro Almodóvar

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Pedro Almodóvar

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

Pedro Almodóvar

But, although these films express many similar ideas from my previous films, I think they express these ideas in a different way.

Pedro Almodóvar

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 Almodóvar