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

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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. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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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

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I think decor 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

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I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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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. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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