Hi, I'm Olivia, and today's Happy Nugget! comes from Pedro Almodóvar, the great Spanish
filmmaker who directed "Talk to Her," "Bad Education," "Volver ," and my
favorites "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," and the brilliant Oscar winning
film "All About My Mother."
The actors Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz starred in Almodóvar films early in their
careers with phenomenal performances.
Most recently they have starred in two of his latest films, "The Skin I Live In"
and "Broken Embraces."
Pedro Almodóvar defies cultural norms and expectations.
He is true to himself and authentic to his vision.
When we watch an Almodóvar film, there is a joy of the filmmaking process in every detail,
and a special atmosphere and tone that make it a uniquely Almodóvar film where he creates
his own personal point of view.
Almodóvar doesn't always lock himself into a genre.
My favorite of his films flow from melodramas to tragicomedies to comedies seamlessly.
Speaking about being young, in an interview in 1998 Almodóvar said, "Young people now
are very preoccupied with the market, which is natural…But I remember in the early '80s,
everything we did we did for pleasure, because we liked to, for the joy of doing it.
Now people are not doing that, and it is a pity.
Because, when you are starting out, that is when you need to do exactly what you want,
with no responsibility."
In 1983, Almodóvar said, "Stories and ideas can flow even through a clumsy and rough style.
On the other hand, I'm a person of action and I prefer to act now rather than wait for
the perfect occasion, have all the funding, and have studied ten years in the U.S.
In fact, I like my films the way they are.
Truffaut used to say that the only way to make films is by making them, and however
clumsy you might be, the technique is learned, the narrative film is learned."
Pedro Almodóvar was born in 1949 in Spain under the Fascist dictatorship of Francisco
Franco.
As a young man, Almodóvar wanted to attend the Spanish National Film School, but it had
closed under Franco's totalitarian rule, so Almodóvar bought a Super 8 camera and
started making short films on his own.
Pedro Almodóvar has always marched to the beat of his own drum.
He has his own production company in Spain, and he has created for himself the freedom
to make whatever films he wants to make.
From the beginning of his career, he cultivated a tight knit group of relationships working
repeatedly with the same talented professionals who have been loyal to his vision.
Pedro Almodóvar champions individual freedom.
He doesn't explain things in his films, he inspires and suggests.
His characters live a life of their own, many times so vivid, all the messy emotions of
life pulsate right out of the screen.
Like a symphony orchestra, in Almodóvar films individual masterful elements like story,
cinematography and music come together for the ultimate performance.
In an interview in 1996, speaking about working in a telephone company for twelve years, Pedro
Almodóvar said, "Really my story is almost a lower level melodrama.
I mean a boy who comes from a little village trying just to survive, and all these kinds
things that happen only in movies.
It's an impossible story, but it happened like that.
It is a surprise that I'm making movies because in my case it was almost impossible
to dream of that.
I was not born in the right place, in the right family, in the right town, in the right
language, or in the right moment to make movies, but I did.
So it's like dreaming of being a bullfighter when you're born in Japan or England, but
it was so clear for me there was an upside to it, and it gave me since the beginning
a kind of direction in my life.
I could avoid other temptations in my mind because it was…clear what I wanted to do,
but now I'm conscious that it was a kind of miracle, everything, all my energy I gave
to this work and when you have such a vocation, and you're seriously generous to that I
think you'll get in.
It doesn't mean you can get…in if you want and everything's possible.
No it's a question of balance.
I wanted to be a storyteller.
I...wanted to tell stories with images in movement, Super 8, 35 mm, whatever, and
I started doing it when I could.
Before making features I made ten years of Super 8 movies just with one small camera."
For me that was to be a director, not to go and be nominated for an Oscar in Hollywood."
Don't wait for the perfect moment to begin chasing your dreams.
We are responsible for paving the way of our imagination.
Give yourself the freedom to create, by trying, by stumbling, by making mistakes, constant
practice and love of what you do, you will eventually achieve mastery of your craft,
and you will unleash the creative universe that lives inside you.
And that's today's Happy Nugget!
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