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

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.

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.

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

Trust is a two way street.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.

We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.