Dario Argento Quotes

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• I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
• I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
• I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
• In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
• When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
• My life and career is my own adventure.
• I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
• 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…
• But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
• Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
• I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
• 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…
• I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
• 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…
• Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.
• 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…
• It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
• 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,…
• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

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