Dario Argento Quotes
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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.
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
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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 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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Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. 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.
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In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
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Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
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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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It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
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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.
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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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There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
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It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
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No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
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When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
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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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I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.
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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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'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.
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But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
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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.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.