top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Challenge quotes

"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."

"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."

"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."

"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
Explore more quotes by Pedro Almodovar

"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."

"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."

"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."

"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."

"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."

"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government."
bottom of page