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Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβar kaβaˈʝeɾo]; born 25 September 1949), credited professionally as Pedro Almodóvar, is a Spanish filmmaker, 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 Desire (1987).

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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.

Believe, Issues, Life, Sex, Thinking, Tried

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.

Awards, Changed, Mother, Perception, Show, Success

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

Consciousness, Passion, Think, Thinking

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

Actors, Different, Differently, Directed, Person, Persons

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.

Actor, Character, Characters, Thinking, Writing

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

Different, Directors, Stories, Successful, Telling

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.

Fabulador, Giving, Movie, Stories, Story

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.

Being Alone, Cinema, Express, Loneliness, Lonely

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

Autobiography, Plagiarism

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.

Happens, Know, Line, Reality, Secret, Writing

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.

Felt, Mixing, Pity, Spectator, Thinking

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

Part, Romantic, Romantic Relationship, Think, Thinking, Utopia

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Film, Inspirational, Material, Mean, Motivational, Parallel

I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut. "

Action, Cutting, Decision, Except, Make, Say

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.

Age, Different, Similar, Thought, Young

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

Angles, Moving, Real, Whenever, Work, Work Out

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.

Color, Emotion, Fake, Fake People, Show, Want

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.

Face, Faces, Reason, Stronger, Talk, Want

An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

Ample, Arses, Down And, Helping, Helps, Weighed

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

Burlesque, Comic, Firsts, Represents, Silent Films, Thinking

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