An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded..

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently..

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to ….

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-….

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 wh….

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did ….

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple..

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism..

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be..

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres..

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 i….

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your ….

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 ….

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and tha….

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk ….

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after..

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently..

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistan….

A dead love never dies..

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing,….

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship..