Latest Pedro Almodovar Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

  Pedro Almodovar

  Cutting, Decision, Action

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Writing, Reality, Secret

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

• I was always storytelling, since I was a child. 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 Almodovar

  Brother, Children, Years

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.

• 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. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Successful, Directors, Different

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

• Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Different, Actors, Persons

  Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

• I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Shows, Jokes

  Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

• Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Character, Males, Female

  Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

• An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Arses, Down And, Helping

  Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

• Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work like a painter, even though I'm working in three dimensions. I'm working with chairs. I'm working with walls. But even things like the floor or the walls that people might think are not important, they actually do influence the visual look of the film. These are also things that I have to think about.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Wall, Thinking, Color

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Fashion, Assistants, Way

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn't been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She's got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Pain, Drama, Character

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More" by Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I like about flying is that I feel like I can really concentrate. I used to write many things, and many ideas for my movies belong to this moment where I'm not anywhere specifically in terms of time and space and geography. I am suspended, and this suspension fits me very well.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Ideas

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

• Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Expression

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.