Dario Argento Quotes (37 Quotes)






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


    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.


    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.

    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.

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

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

    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

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

    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.

    Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

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

    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

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

    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.

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

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


    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.

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


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