Pedro Almodóvar

“Melodrama is a genre that I love. It's a genre that allows you to talk about the most difficult things in life.”

“My life is my work. My work is my life.”

“The real Spain is not the Spain of the bulls and the flamenco. The real Spain is the one that is trying to shake off its ghosts.”

“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.”

“I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.”

“For me, the camera is a character. It's a character that is present in all my films.”

“I always say that I am a storyteller. I'm a narrator. I'm not a man of ideas. I'm a man of stories.”

“Humor is a way of surviving. It's a way of dealing with the worst of things.”