A biography for Pedro Almodovarhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.”
“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.”
“Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.”
“I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.”
“My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.”
“I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.”
“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.”
“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.”
“La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.”
“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.”
“If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.”
“Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.”
“I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.”