Excerpts from an interview:Q: Women are a constant in your films – why?
A: I did films with men like Bad Education, that have only men in them, and also Law of Desire, where Carmen Maura played a man. But it’s true that women tend to be at the centre of my movies. I don’t know why. Probably because women are also more interesting as a subject to develop a story about. I wouldn’t say that women and men have different problems; they have the same problems, they have the same joys and they have to also suffer the same things. But I think women have more freedoms to express their feelings and emotions.
They are less shy and have less prejudice too. I think women can surprise us much better, probably because for centuries women were forced to live in silence in the shadows. So they have that capacity to surprise us much more. I find them more interesting as a subject matter to develop a story. When I started writing the script of Volver, I knew I wanted to write only about a female universe. And because this film is related to the memory from my childhood… when I grew up, I was surrounded by women: men were not there.
Excerpted from http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/volver-pedro-almodovar-interview
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