Pedro Almodovar Quotes

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.

Artists in general never stay in the same place; we keep growing. It's still you: you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I felt love on 'Lil Boat 2.' People say my first project, 'Lil Boat,' was my best project, but I didn't feel it because I was so new, and it took a minute to grow.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.