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Quote by Pedro Almodóvar
I have always conceived of cinema, the things I’ve made, as having a representation of life.
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The speaker sees cinema as a way of representing life. Their films are not separate from ordinary human experience; they are meant to show some version of it. “Representation” suggests that a film does not reproduce life exactly, but presents it through images, choices, and storytelling.
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- BAFTA — Screenwriters’ Lecture Series 2019: Pedro Almodóvar
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