I Used This Line To Demonstrate How

All My Movies Have An Autobiographical Dimension, But That Is Indirectly, Through The Characters. In Fact I Am Behind Everything That Happens And That Is Said, But I Am Never Talking About Myself In First Person. Something In Me - Probably A Dislike Of Cheap Exhibitionism- Stops Me From Approaching A Project Too Autobiographically.

When I'm Writing, I Don't Put Faces On The Characters. When I Finish The First Draft Of The Script, I Start Visualizing, And Sometimes Then I Think About One Actor.

When I Was Very Young, I Was Already A Fabulador. I Loved To Give My Own Version Of Stories That Everybody Already Knew. When I Got Out Of A Movie With My Sisters, I Retold Them The Whole Story. In General They Liked My Version Better Than The One They Had Seen.

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.

Even Though I Love My Mother, I Didn't Want To Make An Idealized Portrait Of Her. I'm Fascinated More By Her Defects - They Are Funnier Than Her Other Qualities.