The 1980s Really Ended For Me In

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.

Whenever I Arrive On A Real Location, I Have To Move Around And Work Out What The Best Angles Are Going To Be.

Anything That Is Not Autobiography Is Plagiarism.

The Challenge To Me As A Director Was For The Audience To See The Film As Going On In A Straight Line, So That They Did Not Sense All Of These Break-ups. I Did Not Want A Film To Be A Collage Of All These Images.

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.