Quotes By Dario Argento

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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