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Hospitals Are Places That You Have To Stay In For A Long Time, Even If You Are A Visitor. Time Doesn't Seem To Pass In The Same Way In Hospitals As It Does In Other Places. Time Seems To Almost Not Exist In The Same Way As It Does In Other Places.

There Is A Mysterious Stillness And Intimacy Of A Woman Doing Her Hair And Make-up Which Attracts Me.

Both Sex And Death Are Eternal Themes. You Could Make Thousands Of Movies On This Theme, And Whether You Have A Human Being Who Is Painting, Singing, Making A Film, Writing, These Are The Themes That You Will Come Back To And Return To. If You Don't Have Any Of These Artistic Expressions, Sex Is One Of The Only Gifts That Nature Gave You For Free, So It Is Very Important To Celebrate It. And Then, With Death, We Are Condemned To That. This Is Absolutely Present In Our Lives.

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.

Never Again Work In The Same Conditions In Whichyou Made Your First Film. It's Good To Take Risks, But Not Thatmuch Risk.