Occupation: Film Director Birth: September 25, 1949
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema..
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 wi….
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and tha….
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her othe….
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that ….
I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut.".
Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently..
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 ….
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 ….
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 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..
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 a….
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my crea….
I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it..
Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work lik….
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….
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 used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice..
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 ….
The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika..
Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be..