Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I love David Lynch movies, and I like Haruki Murakami books.

Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.

I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.