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.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.
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.
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
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.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful!
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.
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
