Quotes By Dario Argento

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

My life and career is my own adventure.

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.

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.

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.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

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.

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.

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