All About My Mother

“! All About My Mother. Okay, so I had an advisor in high school. She lent me a box set of all his movies. Why am I crying over Pedro Almodóvar? I love Pedro Almodóvar. But I had never seen unconventional beauty, or beauty that was not the norm, be so propped up and made to be so beautiful, like the large noses and the interesting Faces, and it just really, like, changed my life. Definitely gonna take that.”

“Oh this is tricky, could it be All About My Mother? Amazing. But then it's between All About My Mother or The Prince of Tides... Jesus lads, it's a tough call here, we got Pedro or we got Nick and so I have to take both of them and I love them both.”

“Oh, while we're doing Almodóvar, All About My Mother. I heard there is a trans actress in this one, so I will be taking this one.”

“Je voulais aussi parler bien sûr de mon cher Almodóvar Pedro vive Almodóvar qui n'a même pas eu de prix à Cannes c'est une honte voilà je vous conseille Tout sur ma mère c'est magnifique...”

“Looking for great movies in our language, in Spanish, this movie by Señor Pedro Almodóvar. Todo Sobre Mi Madre, All About My Mother. Beautiful, beautiful film. And I think your Mother, anyone’s Mother, but your own Mother can always be a source of material for yourself. I have worked around the ideas and my experience with my own Mother in many movies, my Mother’s very important in my cinema, so I completely share Pedro’s necessity to make a movie that’s called All About My Mother.”

“Almodóvar, I love all of his movies. I love All About My Mother. There's a purposeful artificiality to things that feel really true. It feels the way you wish you expressed yourself.”

“All About My Mother. I’ve never seen this film, but, when I was in pre-production on Ghost World, my producer said, 'Have you thought about a DP yet?'... I come across this film. I don’t know anything about it. Put it in, put it on, see the opening. The colors look absolutely right for Ghost World, I don’t know why. Fast forward, 'Oh, it’s still perfect.'... Who is this cinematographer? Affonso Beato. So Lianne gets off the phone, comes in, I said, 'What about this guy Affonso Beato?'”