A dead love never dies.

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

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

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

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

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.