Quotes By Dario Argento

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.

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

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

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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.

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

My life and career is my own adventure.

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.

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.

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

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

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

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

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

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.

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

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

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.

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