 At age 9 he watched "On the Waterfront", a movie that had a powerful influence on him and inspired him to write his first poems in English.Another cinematic influence at that age was the movie "Niagara", where he discovered the eroticism and sensuality of Marilyn Monroe.In 1954, after a short stay in Barcelona, Aute returned definitively to Madrid, where he studied at the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas.