La Pointe Courte (dir. Agnès Varda – 1955)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman – 1966)
Love and Death (dir. Woody Allen – 1975)
Mulholland Dr. (dir. David Lynch – 2001)
Hable Con Ella (dir. Pedro Almodovar – 2002)
The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman – 1963)
“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I’m writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I’m subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don’t resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.”
Antonio Banderas in
The Skin I Live In
“When you work in a different language, your emotional state changes. In Spanish, my mother language, words not only have the meaning they have—they also have a personal meaning. For me, it is more difficult to say ‘Te quiero’ than ‘I love you.’”
Perfect weather to make gazpacho. I’ve been feeling rather Pepa-ish lately, too, so it all fits.
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
“Even people who work with me don´t know who I´m dating. I just don´t talk about it so that I won´t implicate others. Just because they´re dating someone famous doesn´t mean they have to lose their privacy. But am I involved? Yes. It´s nice to be wanted romantically, to be desired and, right now, I am.”
—
Pedro Almodovar
God·damn
Oh, Pedro and Quentin, the two directors I lust to work for the most right now.
And Tim Burton
again – one of my favorite scenes
“My family life was completely governed by women. Up to the age of about eight, I lived entirely surrounded by women, and by strong women. The post-war women, I don’t know how they got by. Despite the situation they managed to feed us every day; they managed to find something to allow us to survive. Spain was marked by this generation of woman.”
- Pedro Almodovar
(on what made him, and the women in his films)
Excellent example for the love of his style of cinematography. The way he angles the camera shots from above, and plays with the color palette is incredible. It feels like Wes Anderson has learned a thing or two from Almodovar, even though I can’t say for sure one knows the other. Both tend to stick to the same actors and has great soundtracks.
