86 Quotes by Pedro Almodóvar

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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