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

There’s nothing gratuitous about my films.

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

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...

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

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!

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.

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.

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

I make a film – and once I’ve made it, everyone comes along and says ‘Ah! This is a film that’s political, or social’ , or whatever. But I’m not telling the story that they...

I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ with Claude Rains that was...

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

This is in contrast with some of my other movies where I used Ennio Morricone for his ability to create an epic feel through his music.

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...

My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother’s studio, and for years, I went to the studio...