I Was Born At A Bad Time

As A Woman, She [penelope Cruz] Obviously Has Changed As She Has Become An Adult. But, As An Actress, I Actually Might Say That She Has Not Changed That Much. And She Has Something Great, Especially In Comedy, And She Hasn't Been Exploited As Much As She Could Be In Comedy, But Particularly In That Mix Between Comedy And Drama. She's Got A Very Special Quality About Her. You Can Place Her In Very Extreme Situations, Especially Very Painful Situations, In Terms Of How Her Character Interprets It. And Sometimes, The Deeper And More Human That Pain Is, The Better She Is At It.

I Don't Want To Imitate Life In Movies; I Want To Represent It. And In That Representation, You Use The Colors You Feel, And Sometimes They Are Fake Colors. But Always It's To Show One Emotion.

It's A Pity That I Can Never Really Enjoy My Movies Because, After The Mixing, Your Capacity As A Spectator Just Disappears. I Have To Think About What I Felt Just Before The Mixing.

My Mother Was An Extremely Creative Woman, Despite The Fact That She Lived The Life Of A Rural Housewife.

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.