Quotes By Dario Argento

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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

My life and career is my own adventure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.