After the enormous success of All About... by Pedro Almodovar

Comedy director Success Drama Mother

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

Other quotes by Pedro Almodovar

Work

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

- Pedro Almodovar

Movies

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.

- Pedro Almodovar

Fact Men Women Government

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

Women

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

- Pedro Almodovar

Colors

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

- Pedro Almodovar

Challenge Sense Want Film

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.

- Pedro Almodovar

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