Quotes by Dario Argento

• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
• Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
• There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
• So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
• I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
• In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
• My life and career is my own adventure.
• But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
• But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
• Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
• Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
• I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
• I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
• I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
• I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
• I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
• 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.
• I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
• 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.
• In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
• Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
• It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
• I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
• It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another 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.
• When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
• Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
• When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.