Pedro Almodovar Quotes

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I'm perpetually lonely.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

Films were really my church. As a young kid, it was movies and books; it was nothing remarkable, really, just that is where I felt soothed, that is where I felt most myself... safest.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.