IMANOL ARIAS IN HIS OWN WORDS

«I am coming too late to this city. I should have come here a long time ago. Time is relative: it passes so slow for those who owe something, and very fast for those who are fearful. It is too long for those who feel shame, and too short for the happy. So: this long time I have not come has been too short for me because today I´m very happy».

“Today´s TV is no longer a soap opera from the very moment that what happens is seen and not told. In a soap opera, things are told, you don´t see them. In a good soap opera, if you close your eyes and listen to it, you understand perfectly because it is made to be listened to. Actors speak continuously and get to say things such as “¡I remind you that you are my father!”

“(…) I lived the times when cinema was subsidized. At some point, I was part of a group of actors who started to leave Latin America. I represented a cinema system and had to do three movies a year, because you could not waste subsidies. I admit: I got to do movies that were not