Quotes by Pedro Almodovar

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)

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. (Pedro Almodovar)

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me -probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically. (Pedro Almodovar)

But, although these films express many similar ideas from my previous films, I think they express these ideas in a different way. (Pedro Almodovar)

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. (Pedro Almodovar)

Even people who work with me don (Pedro Almodovar)

Even though I love my mother, I didnt want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. (Pedro Almodovar)

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)

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)

I don't know if All About My Mother is my best film yet. I havent had time to analyse it. If you look at the argument it looks like an outrageous story, but the challenge was to show the story as something real and emotional. The truth is that everybody leaves the cinema feeling a better person. (Pedro Almodovar)