Pedro Almodovar Quotes

When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

Film is a medium where the audience gives you 100 per cent.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.

I watch films, so I know what it is to be there in a theatre as the audience. So I always want to communicate with them when I make films, but that is not the only thing. I also want to say something which I feel deeply, and which I feel I can connect with the rest of the audience.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film, and all they write about is 48 frames.

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I always approach film as a fan.