Quotes By Dario Argento

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

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

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

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.