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 Almodovar More Quotes by Pedro Almodovar More Quotes From Pedro Almodovar When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word. Pedro Almodovar movie editing writing I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut." Pedro Almodovar cutting decision action I think décor 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 Almodovar stories way thinking 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. Pedro Almodovar conscious mind writing 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 Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk. Pedro Almodovar risk film firsts 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 Almodovar movie stories giving I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it. Pedro Almodovar jokes shows 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 Almodovar pity mixing thinking 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 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 secret writing reality 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 Almodovar doe long way 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 Almodovar awards perception mother 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 Almodovar lines challenges directors Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. Pedro Almodovar my-favorite masters directors 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. Pedro Almodovar different age young 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 Almodovar being-alone lonely loneliness 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 believe sex thinking 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 assistants fashion way My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife. Pedro Almodovar creative mother facts
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