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Pedro Almodovar

"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."

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"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."

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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."

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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

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"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."

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"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."

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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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"I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics."

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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."

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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

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Amber Hurdle

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."

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"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."
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"Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women."
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