Pedro Almodovar Quotes

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?