Quotes By Dario Argento

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

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

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

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

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

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

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

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

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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

My life and career is my own adventure.

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

No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

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

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

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.