My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school close to my mother’s studio, and for years, I went to the studio after school and just watched how she captured these beauties. Dario Argento Read Quote
Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it’s easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares. Dario Argento Read Quote
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it’s natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I’m afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what’s there, to embrace it. I don’t know why, but I’m drawn. Dario Argento Read Quote
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. Dario Argento Read Quote
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, ‘Once Upon a Time in the West.’ And then I moved to directing. Dario Argento Read Quote
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!’ Dario Argento Read Quote
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. Dario Argento Read Quote
I’m Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. Dario Argento Read Quote
