My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the intrinsic passion for storytelling that transcends success in any particular medium.
Pedro Almodovar emphasizes that his identity as a storyteller is what truly matters to him, regardless of the medium or level of success he achieves as a director. This underscores that the love for the craft of storytelling is paramount, and he would have sought alternate ways to express his creativity if not through film, highlighting the universality and resilience of artistic expression.
Themes
StorytellingArtCreativityMediumSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can inspire aspiring filmmakers to focus on their passion for storytelling rather than just the pursuit of success.
More from Pedro Almodovar
All quotes →If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
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 be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
Pedro AlmodovarRead
Similar quotes
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
Maurice SendakRead
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
John CageRead
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
Neil PeartRead
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles De LintRead
I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
Charlie ParkerRead