Dario Argento Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Dario Argento

  Psychology, Horror, Film

• 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.

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

  Dario Argento

  Ukulele, Film, Five

• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

  Dario Argento

  Heart, Dark, Opera

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

  Dario Argento

  Film, Knows, Originals

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

  Dario Argento

  Film, Incredibles

• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Film, Horrible, Psychiatrist

• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Italian, Film History, Special

• 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

• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Strong, Special, Trying

• 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.

• 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, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

  Dario Argento

  Struggle, Littles, Helpful

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

  Dario Argento

  Kind, Film, Making Money

• 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

  Dario Argento

  Interesting, Special, Opera

• 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.

  Dario Argento

  Character, Psychology, Different

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

  Dario Argento

  Mean, Soul, Messages

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

  Dario Argento

  Should Have, Manipulation, Firsts

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

  Dario Argento

  Watches, Stories, Strange

• 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

• I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

  Dario Argento

  Moving, Thinking, Important

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

• 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

  Children, Men, Film Critics

• Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

  Dario Argento

  Film

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

  Dario Argento

  Mind, Film, Made

• 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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