Dario Argento Film Quotations

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 also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

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.

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.

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.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

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!

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.