Dario Argento quotes - page 2

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind. (Dario Argento)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life. View quote
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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. View quote
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience. (Dario Argento)
My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic. View quote
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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 did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing. View quote
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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 in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. View quote
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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. View quote
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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time. View quote
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. View quote
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I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know. View quote
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I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing. (Dario Argento)
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. View quote
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The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. View quote
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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 very beautiful, interesting nightmares. View quote
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Dario Argento

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Photo: Brian Eeles, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Italian Director
Born: September 7, 1940
Quotes count: 49

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