Dario Argento Quotes

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'