Dario Argento
Dario Argento
Dario Argentois an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 September 1940
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
struggle littles helpful
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.
perfect humanity paradise
Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
watches stories strange
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
men film problem
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
beautiful girl men
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.
dream real imagination
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.
limits boring absolutes
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.
want audience
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
way film making-changes
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.
definitions emotion anticipation
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
psychology horror film
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
secret skins trying
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.
italian-director
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
change movies natural shooting time
Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.