“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.” FirstsPersonsSaidCharacterFactsHappensBehindsTalkingProjectsDimensionsDislikeFirst PersonExhibitionism Author:Pedro Almodovar
“As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might say that she has not changed that much. And she has something great, especially in comedy, and she hasn't been exploited as much as she could be in comedy, but particularly in that mix between comedy and drama. She's got a very special quality about her. You can place her in very extreme situations, especially very painful situations, in terms of how her character interprets it. And sometimes, the deeper and more human that pain is, the better she is at it.” HumansSometimesCharacterPainTermQualitySituationComedySpecialChangedDramaAdultsPainfulDeeperExtremesActressesCruzPainful Situations Author:Pedro Almodovar
“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.” ThinkingWritingFirstsSometimesCharacterFacesActorsScriptsVisualizing Author:Pedro Almodovar
“Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.” CharacterCultureFemalePrejudiceMalesDullFewerSurprisingLatinoFemale CharactersMachismo Author:Pedro Almodovar
