Pedro Almodovar

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.”

“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.”

“I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.”

“I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.”

“You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.”

“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.”

“Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”