Pedro Almodóvar
(September 25, 1949)
Sign: Libra
“The colors of my movies are not completely real, because I like that distance, that this is a movie, and reality is over there. I don’t want to make something that looks completely real.”
Gay Spanish director known for his films that confront the negativities of non-normative sexuality, albeit with humor, such as in Law of Desire (1987) or All About My Mother (1999), which won the Academy Award for best Foreign Language film.
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