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 ….

When I was young I thought: when I am 60 my necessities will be very different. As I get near that age, I realise they are similar to what they were ….

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-….

I'm a very dull passenger. I don't speak. I don't have sex. No alcohol. I don't do drugs. The thing that I like about flying is that I feel like I ca….

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

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

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika..

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

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….

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 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 ….

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me..

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

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism..

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 make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie..

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….

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

I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it..

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 ….