Pedro Almodovar Quotes

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without that, I don't know if I'd be a writer.