Dario Argento Quotes

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• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Secret, Skins, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

  Dario Argento

  Limits, Boring, Absolutes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

  Dario Argento

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

  Dario Argento

  Psychology, Horror, Film

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• Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

  Dario Argento

  Definitions, Emotion, Anticipation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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  Perfect, Humanity, Paradise

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• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

  Dario Argento

  Movie, Gambling, Watches

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• I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

  Dario Argento

  Mean, Soul, Messages

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• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Way, Film, Making Changes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Insanity, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Film, Horrible, Psychiatrist

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

  Dario Argento

  Want, Audience

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• Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

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

  Dario Argento

  Men, Problem, Film

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• I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

  Dario Argento

  Watches, Stories, Strange

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• In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

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  Character, Soul, Pieces

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

  Dario Argento

  Mind, Film, Made

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• I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

  Dario Argento

  Thinking, Style, Audience

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• 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!

  Dario Argento

  Magic, Witch, Wonderful

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• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Stories, Want, Audience

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. September 23, 2008.

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

  Dario Argento

  Film, Knows, Originals

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

  Dario Argento

  Ukulele, Film, Five

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