I Am Partly Not Conscious Of Structure

As A Woman, She [penelope Cruz] Obviously Has Changed As She Has Become An Adult. But, As An Actress, I Actually Might Say That She Has Not Changed That Much. And She Has Something Great, Especially In Comedy, And She Hasn't Been Exploited As Much As She Could Be In Comedy, But Particularly In That Mix Between Comedy And Drama. She's Got A Very Special Quality About Her. You Can Place Her In Very Extreme Situations, Especially Very Painful Situations, In Terms Of How Her Character Interprets It. And Sometimes, The Deeper And More Human That Pain Is, The Better She Is At It.

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 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.

Never Again Work In The Same Conditions In Whichyou Made Your First Film. It's Good To Take Risks, But Not Thatmuch Risk.

Yes, Women Are Stronger Than Us. They Face More Directly The Problems That Confront Them, And For That Reason They Are Much More Spectacular To Talk About. I Don't Know Why I Am More Interested In Women, Because I Don't Go To Any Psychiatrists, And I Don't Want To Know Why.