Almodovar Films Quotes

#1. Fish did not discover water.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. 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.

Pedro Almodovar

#3. Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Noah Richler

#4. And he continues: Thus it is increasingly necessary you recognize that other congregations of material bodies exist elsewhere in the universe, like this of our world, which the ether encircles in eager embrace

Umberto Eco

#5. I am just an artist.

Andres Serrano

#6. 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.

Pedro Almodovar

#7. I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

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

Pedro Almodovar

#9. doubt and faith do not exist in the same person at the same time

Joseph Smith

#10. Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

Robin Sloan

#11. Always one to accept a compliment graciously, Wright.

Ashlan Thomas

#12. The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

Mo Brooks

#13. As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified.

Miranda J. Barrett

#14. Being cheerful keeps you healthy

Solomon

#15. 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 Almodovar

#16. We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ryan White

#17. 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.

Pedro Almodovar

#18. If I'd lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I'd made 16 films.

Pedro Almodovar

#19. The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Claude Bernard

#20. Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Pedro Almodovar