Dario Argento famous quotes

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

#Secret #Skins #Trying

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
-- Dario Argento

#Psychology #Horror #Film

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

#Way #Film #Making Changes

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.
-- Dario Argento

#Film

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.
-- Dario Argento

#Beautiful #Girl #Men

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

#Film #Horrible #Psychiatrist

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
-- Dario Argento

#Perfect #Humanity #Paradise

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

#Ukulele #Film #Love Films

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
-- Dario Argento

#Writing

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

#Moving #Thinking #Important

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
-- 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

#Stories #Want #Audience

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

#Definitions #Emotion #Anticipation

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
-- Dario Argento

#Writing #Insanity #Want

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

#Italian #Special #Niche

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

#Thinking #Style #Audience

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
-- Dario Argento

#Film

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
-- Dario Argento

#Film #Incredibles

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
-- Dario Argento

#Heart #Dark #Opera

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.
-- Dario Argento

#Struggle #Littles #Helpful

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

#Want #Audience

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

#Phases #Nostalgia

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
-- Dario Argento

#Years #Long #Style

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
-- Dario Argento

#Judging #Psychiatrist

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
-- Dario Argento

#Teenage #Teenager

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

#Mean #Soul #Messages

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

#Movie #Watches

I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.
-- Dario Argento

#Beautiful #Girl #Men

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

#Firsts #Film #Should

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
-- Dario Argento

#Fans #Irritated

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

#Watches #Stories #Strange

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!
-- Dario Argento

#Magic #Witch #Wonderful

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
-- Dario Argento

#Friday #Cameras #Able

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

#Men #Problem #Film

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.
-- Dario Argento

#Luxury #Lucky #Able

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

#Character #Soul #Pieces

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
-- Dario Argento

#Girl #Actors #Young

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

#Strong #Special #Trying

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

#Mind #Film #Made

My life and career is my own adventure.
-- Dario Argento

#Adventure #Careers #Funny Travel

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

#Kind #Film #Making Money