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Dario Argento  Quotes
Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it’s easy to speak with my dark side. I have...

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

—Dario Argento

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‘Macbeth’ is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie – such as some of the...

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Shooting movies has changed, and me too – I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the...

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

—Dario Argento

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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.

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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.

—Dario Argento

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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

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

—Dario Argento

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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.

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I’ve never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

—Dario Argento

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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

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AudienceEverybody
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

—Dario Argento

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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

—Dario Argento

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

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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...

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

—Dario Argento

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I’m appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan… and in the United Kingdom.

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I remember when I was very young, I had a fever – a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my...

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

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

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We had many good directors – John Carpenter, Brian De Palma – but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.

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

—Dario Argento

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Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were very talented and I wanted to give them a break.

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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.

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I’m very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I’m interested in their lives and their problems.

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

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‘Deep Red’ (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset....

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My life and career is my own adventure.

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Masters of Horror

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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

—Dario Argento

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

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

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Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my...

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So I haven’t thought about the critics for a long time.

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I am young. I didn’t know that. But I don’t recognize myself. That’s my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.

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

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

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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, ‘Television won’t like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!’

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

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But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the first time in the next couple of months.

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I like films to have something inside, I don’t mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

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There’s nothing gratuitous about my films.

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I don’t like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

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I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I...

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

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I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, it’s wonderful!

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Italian Director
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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.

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Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They’ve discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn’t exist.

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