Top 25 Pedro Almodóvar Quotes (2024 Update)

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “A dead love never dies.”

6. “A dead love never dies.”

— Pedro Almodóvar

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

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

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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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.”

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

— Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.”

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

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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.”

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

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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.”

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

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

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

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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.”

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

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Pedro Almodóvar Quote: “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.”

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

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