Dario Argento Quotes
"Paradise is too perfect for humanity."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Paradise, Humanity)
"There's nothing gratuitous about my films."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Nothing)
"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
(Related: History, Work, Thought, Audiences, Film, Will)
"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
(Related: Experience, Life, Work, Film)
"The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Hope, Film, Opera)
"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Time, Thought)
"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
(Related: Man, Problems, Woman)
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Soul)
"My life and career is my own adventure."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Life, Adventure, Career)
"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."
- Dario Argento
(Related: First, Right)
"But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly."
- Dario Argento
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Movies)
"Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Writer)
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Money, Film)
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Soul)
"I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story."
- Dario Argento
"I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Audiences, Want)
"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Thought, Nostalgia)
"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
(Related: Time, Being, Compromise, Luxury)
"I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know."
- Dario Argento
"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
(Related: Time, Bizarre, Film, Right, Struggle)
"In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Italy, Judges, Old)
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Work, Movies)
"It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad."
- 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
(Related: Fantasy, Horror, Style, Years)
"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Fans, Old)
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Film, Mind)
"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
(Related: Money, Content, Film, Pressure)
"When I was five. That's when I started to love film."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Love, Film)
"Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors."
- Dario Argento
(Related: Actors, Girls)
"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."
- Dario Argento