The best Quotes by Pedro Almodovar

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

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.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Nobody should have to go to work thinking, "Oh, this is the place that I might die today." That's what a hospital is for. An office is for not dying.

I love hospitals. If I could spend the rest of my life in a hospital, I would. Because when you're in a hospital, you have zero responsibilities.

We're hospitals, killing people should be high up on the list of things we do not do.

Stella: "Why didn't I pack anything nice?"
Poe: "Because you always pack for a hot hospital romance."

Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.