Top 25 Pedro Almodóvar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

3. “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 Almodóvar

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

5. “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.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

6. “A dead love never dies.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

7. “I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It’s not a caprice.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

8. “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.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

9. “Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

11. “I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

12. “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.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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13. “Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It’s good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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14. “I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

15. “I’m really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

16. “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.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

17. “I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

18. “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 Almodóvar

19. “When I’m writing, I don’t put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

20. “Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

21. “If I had not been successful as a director, then I’m sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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22. “When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were when I was 25.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

23. “There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

24. “When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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25. “I’m more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don’t joke about it.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

26. “When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

27. “I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

29. “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 Almodóvar