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    SHELF LIFE

    Sep 03, 2019 5 minutes
    BY PEDRO ALMODÓVAR

    I LIVE MY LIFE SURROUNDED BY BOOKS—NOT THAT I HAVE read all of them, or fully understand them. Considering the kind of immersive work to which I devote myself, I occasionally suffer from a certain attention deficit. I read, but my head is somewhere else. My books are filled with notes that only my secretary and I are capable of deciphering. All of my films exist in the free spaces of the books that I read. Sometimes reading gives me the key to unlock a shot, but generally, besides giving me pleasure, reading puts me in a very fertile state of mind, transporting me to a place where ideas can flourish.

    I begin to read while I’m writing a script, and I must continually interrupt myself to jot down

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