Pedro Almodovar
Pedro Almodovar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor. He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña, a cultural renaissance that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period. In 1986, he established his own film production company, El Deseo, with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar, responsible for producing all of his films since Law of...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 September 1949
CountrySpain
Pedro Almodovar quotes about
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
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 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.
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.
A dead love never dies.
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
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.
I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.
An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.
You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.