Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. There’s, like, surrealist elements to it, but at the same time, I just related to the Crash out, of feeling so insane. And I love when she lights her bed on fire. Just something I’ve wanted to do in my life.”

“One that is here that is obvious, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar of course. This is like an all-time classic, this is super important and influential to me.”

“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Pedro, I love you, I love you, I love you so much. You know, when you see movies by people who like, I don't know, like love women, like love their mothers, you know, this is a gift. Like, he loves his Mother and I love that for him and for us.”

“I'll take Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. I remember being so struck by the color and the cinematography of it. Years later I got the chance to work with Almodóvar in a movie called Broken Embraces in which we actually emulated this film in one of the sequences and I used a specific film emulsion that was Ektachrome because the colors were especially saturated on that film stock. In honor of that moment I'll take Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”

“Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar. Everything I want out of filmmaking is what Almodóvar does: color, melodrama, women, gender, sex, gay stuff. But this one's about the women and frequently I will just be teleported to this part where Peppa, played by Carmen Maura, is listing the ingredients to gazpacho. She's listing all the things she puts in this gazpacho, which I think she's drugged and given to these police officers and they're all passing out one by one.”

“What is this? Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Oh, Almodóvar.”