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Almodóvar and the
cast of Tacones Lejanos (High Heels)
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- "I was born in a bad
time for Spain, but a really good one for
cinema"
- "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."
- "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."
- "Right now I don't
know if I have dreamt about this or not. But when you are
in the ocean you must swim. Being on the race for the
Oscars, logically I want to win".
- "I fit very well, you
don't know how much, with winning the Oscar. It happened
before with Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown. I get sad, especially for the people who
surround me and the public who might stop me on the
streets. It is a virtual responsibility".
- "I don't know if
All About My Mother is my best film yet. I haven't
had time to analyse it. If you look at the argument it
looks like an outrageous story, but the challenge was to
show the story as something real and emotional. The truth
is that everybody leaves the cinema feeling a better
person".
Read Pedro
Almodóvars Promo Self Interview here
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