Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

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. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.