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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
My life and career is my own adventure.
Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
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.
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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.
I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
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!
I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.
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.
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.
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.
For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.