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.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Dario Argento
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento
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.
Dario Argento