Pedro Almodovar Quotations

I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

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.

La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

I ask myself questions that journalists don't dare to ask or don't know how to ask.

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.

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.

I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

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