Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated … - Pedro Almodovar

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. . nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

Pedro Almodovar

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.

Love, Mother, Portraits, Quality, Though

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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.

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I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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. . nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

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Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

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