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He was president of the jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

New York, NY: Interviewed by journalist Lorne Manly as part of TimesTalks series at the New York TimesCenter building. [June 2013]

Was approached to direct at some point both Brokeback Mountain (2005) and The Paperboy (2012).

In the film Bad Education (2004), Almodóvar mix past and present, fiction and reality in a manner very similar to that used by writer Zlatko Topcic earlier in the hit film Remake (2003).

Has been romantically involved with photographer Fernando Iglesias (I) since 2002, whom he frequently casts in small roles in his films.

Even though he doesn't watch TV, a lot of the main cast of 7 vidas (1999) have appeared on his movies: Blanca Portillo, Carmen Machi, Javier Cámara, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo, Leandro Rivera and Yolanda Ramos. Toni Cantó and Anabel Alonso have also worked with him, but before the show started.

His first feature film, Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), was made in 16 mm and blown-up to 35 mm for public release.

From 1972 to 1978, he devoted himself to make short films with the help of of his friends. The "premieres" of those early films were famous in the rapidly growing world of the Spanish counter-culture. In few years, Almodóvar became a star of "La Movida", the pop cultural movement of late 70s Madrid.

The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study filmmaking because he didn't have the money to afford it. Besides, the filmmaking schools were closed in early 70s by Franco's government. Instead, he found a job in the Spanish phone company and saved his salary to buy a Super 8 camera.

Le Doulos (1962) and Le Cercle Rouge (1970) are two of his favorite movies directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

Attended a Catholic boarding school in the 1960s where some of his fellow students were abused by priests. He asserts that he himself wasn't abused.

His favourite Spanish films are: Main Street (1956), It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), The Executioner (1963), La tía Tula (1964), El extraño viaje (1964), Peppermint Frappé (1967), Furtivos (1975), Arrebato (1979), El Sur (1983), Jamón, Jamón (1992), Tesis (1996), Blancanieves (2012) and Magical Girl (2014).

The Lady from Shanghai (1947) is one of his favourite films.

Born on the 24th of September, his parents officially registered him the next day.