Dario Argento Quotes

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.
Dario Argento

Try, Away, Keep

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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

Time, Struggle, Film

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

Love, Hope, Dark

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

Place, Films, Manipulate

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

Getting, Films, Original

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.
Dario Argento

Time, Person, Another

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

Good, Movies, Union

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Dario Argento

Himself, Writer, Writes

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento

Same, Emotion, Pure

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

Money, Made, Film

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

Mean, Soul, Films

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

Strange, Story, Films

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

Important, Nothing, Film

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

Audiences, Dictated

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

Long, After, Wanted

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

Bad, Through, Thought

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

Style, Audience

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

Woman, Problems, Lives

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

Time, Enough, Wanted

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

Door, Gone, Analysis

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

Soul, Characters, Piece

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

Old, Italy, Judges

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

Old, Fans, Ground

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

Sad, Films, Incredible

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Nationality: Italian

Born: September 7, 1940

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