Daily Inspiration Quote by Pedro Almodovar

Almodovar is admitting to a kind of honorable trick: he’s using cinema not to reveal, but to conceal. The phrase “hide what was going on in the clinic” reads like a confession with a wink, because in his world concealment isn’t cowardice; it’s craft. He’s pointing to the oldest Almodovarian move - turning pain, taboo, or bodily vulnerability into something stylized enough to survive being looked at. A clinic is where the body becomes a case file. His “best cinematic way” is a counter-spell: color, framing, performance, and narrative rhythm that refuse the sterile, flattening gaze.

The key word is “entertaining.” In lesser hands, that would sound like a moral dodge, as if the goal is to make suffering palatable. With Almodovar, it’s closer to ethics. Entertainment becomes the delivery system that smuggles in discomfort. A silent film intensifies that strategy: silence turns dialogue into gesture, diagnosis into choreography. Without speech, the viewer can’t hide behind explanations; you read faces, objects, edits. What happens in the clinic becomes less medical and more mythic, which is exactly the point - to restore a messy human dimension that clinical settings often strip away.

Subtext: he’s acknowledging the camera’s violence and offering a compromise. If you must look, he’ll control how you look, wrapping what’s raw in a form that’s pleasurable enough to keep you watching, and sharp enough to make you feel implicated.