When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.

An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

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

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

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

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.