Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Film is forever.

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Cinema is a temple and who am I to say which person deserves entry?

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

That policy was correct … That was 1957. It is now 1967.