Dario Argento Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
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My life and career is my own adventure.
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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.
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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.
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I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
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I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man.
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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.
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
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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.
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If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
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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.
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Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
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When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
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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.
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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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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.
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It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
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I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
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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.
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
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