Pedro Almodovar Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.”

“When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.”

“Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.”

“Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.”

“Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.”

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

“If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.”

“The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.”

“The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.”

“Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.”