Dario Argento Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.”

“I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.”

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

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

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

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

“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 terms and without compromise.”

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

“There's nothing gratuitous about my films.”

“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.”