The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

A dead love never dies.

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

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'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.