Pedro Almodóvar quotes - page 2

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music. (Pedro Almodóvar)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government. View quote
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I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie. View quote
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I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask. View quote
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I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them. View quote
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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 Almodóvar)
The life I live due to my work is difficult to share. View quote
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If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films. View quote
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Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism. View quote
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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. View quote
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A dead love never dies. View quote
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I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it. View quote
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I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie. View quote
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Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently. View quote
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When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25. View quote
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When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen. (Pedro Almodóvar)
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whenever I've shot my previous films, I've felt phantoms of my own cinema past and personal past hovering over me. They accompanied me through those films. But this time I felt completely on my own. For the first time this film did not go hand-in-hand with my memories. The tone is different as well. It's very austere. View quote
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I've had a very good relationship with my mother, but there's a whole generation of Spanish women who have struggled: very strong fighting figures who carry their families. These women are now in their 80s and feel that life has been unfair to them; they don't know how to grow old and how to be happy old ladies. View quote
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