I Don't Want To Imitate Life In

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.

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.

I'm A Very Dull Passenger. I Don't Speak. I Don't Have Sex. No Alcohol. I Don't Do Drugs. The Thing That I Like About Flying Is That I Feel Like I Can Really Concentrate. I Used To Write Many Things, And Many Ideas For My Movies Belong To This Moment Where I'm Not Anywhere Specifically In Terms Of Time And Space And Geography. I Am Suspended, And This Suspension Fits Me Very Well.

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.

A Dead Love Never Dies.