Dario Argento Quotes
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I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.
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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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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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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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My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother's studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties.
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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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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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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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Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
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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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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
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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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'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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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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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
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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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There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
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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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When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
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I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.