I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

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

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.

I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.