Quotes from Dario Argento

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

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.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

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.

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.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

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.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

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.

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.