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 remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
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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.
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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
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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.
character psychology asia
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.
mind film made
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.
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Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
character soul littles
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
thinking style audience
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.