“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while...” — Pedro Almodovar Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.”

“I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.”

“Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.”

“Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.”