Spanish - Director | September 25, 1949 -
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Pedro Almodovar
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The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
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I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.
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I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.
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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.
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My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
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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.
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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.
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The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.
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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
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Cinema has become my life. I don't 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.
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