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
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I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
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But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the first time in the next couple of months.
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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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Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were very talented and I wanted to give them a break.
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This is in contrast with some of my other movies where I used Ennio Morricone for his ability to create an epic feel through his music.
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We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
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I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.
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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.
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I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.
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I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
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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.