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Dario Argento
Italian
Director
About the author
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#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,
Italian
Director
#Film
#Money
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Movies
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Humanity
#Paradise
There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#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,
Italian
Director
#Film
#Work
#Will
#Thought
#History
#Audiences
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,
Italian
Director
#Life
#Film
#Work
#Experience
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Love
#Hope
#Film
#Opera
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#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,
Italian
Director
#Problems
#Man
#Woman
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Soul
My life and career is my own adventure.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Life
#Career
#Adventure
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Right
#First
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Movies
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Soul
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Want
#Audiences
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#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,
Italian
Director
#Time
#Being
#Luxury
#Compromise
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
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,
Italian
Director
#Time
#Right
#Film
#Bizarre
#Struggle
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Old
#Judges
#Italy
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Work
#Movies
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Style
#Years
#Fantasy
#Horror
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Fans
#Old
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#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,
Italian
Director
#Film
#Money
#Pressure
#Content
When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Love
#Film
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director
#Girls
#Actors
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
Dario Argento,
Italian
Director