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Pedro Almodovar's Profile

Brief about Pedro Almodovar: By info that we know Pedro Almodovar was born at 1949-09-24. And also Pedro Almodovar is Spanish Director.

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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.

Tags: Fake, Life, Movies

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.

Tags: Problems, Why, Women

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

Tags: Act, Makes, Passion

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.

Tags: Almost, Seems, Time

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.

Tags: Life, Loneliness, Strength

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

Tags: Difficult, Mixing, Movies

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

Tags: Favorite, Master, Women

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

Tags: Line, Movies, Used

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

Tags: Bad, Good, Time

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

Tags: Ended, Film

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.

Tags: Flower, Simple, True

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.

Tags: After, Mother, Success

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.

Tags: Her, Love, Mother

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.

Tags: Someone, Tell, Work

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.

Tags: Change, Maturity, Time

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.

Tags: Government, Men, Women

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.

Tags: After, Enjoy, Movies

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.

Tags: Challenge, Film, Sense

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.

Tags: Film, Second, Silent

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.

Tags: Best, Moving, Work
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