Pedro Almodovar Quotes

I always say, you know, if I sit here and close my eyes and say, 'When did I learn the most in my life, in my career?' It'll always be when I close them and everything I think of is when I took a risk. It's when I think I learned the most.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know what they're doing and who can help me.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.

The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.

Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadn’t done... the paths you hadn’t taken, the things you hadn’t experienced.