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I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

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In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

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It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

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With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

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I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

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Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.

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Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Director

Born: September 25th, 1949

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