Quotes by Dario Argento - Page 2

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 / Film Director
Bizarre
Distributors
Helpful
Littles
Struggle
Cooperative
Normally
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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 / Film Director
Distinguished
Early Work
Film History
Italian
Niche
Something Special
Special
Adored
Apart
Audiences
Early
Humbly
Italian Film
Occupy
Realized
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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 / Film Director
Important
Moving
Obsession
Thinking
Always Me Important
Me Important Nothing
Camera
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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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 / Film Director
Men
Beautiful
Dark
Dark Side
Enthusiastic
Imaginative
New Generation
Love Great Beautiful
Horror Films
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'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Movie
Brutal
Character
Film
My Own
Red
Strong
Upset
Almost
David
Based
Favorite
Countries
Cut
Deep
Hour
Plays
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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 / Film Director
Ah
Exactly What
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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 / Film Director
Captured
Photographer
Sophia
Beauties
Watched
Sophia Loren
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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 / Film Director
Affinity
Embrace
Extremes
Insanity
Madness
Want
Writing
Directing
Drawn
Drives
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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 / Film Director
Dream
Good
Imagination
Critics
Film
Impossible
Precise
Real
Real Life
Stories
Unbelievable
Like
Because
Life Dreams Good
Me
Too
Say
Films
Resembles
Tell
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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.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Vacation
Color
Morbid
Opera
Retrospective
Began
Films
Follow
Phantom
Rains
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'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 / Film Director
Bits
Effects
Good Work
Interesting
Opera
Special
Special Effects
Best Work Experience
Best Work Good
Added
Great Experience
Macbeth
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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.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Fantasy
Fever
Impression
Remember When
Alone Me Long
Allen
Edgar
Ghosts
Maid
Poe
Stayed
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I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in that room so that you could see the distances between things like the tables and the vases because of how he used perspective.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Hitchcock
Perspective
Remembered
Tables
Almost All
Dial
Distances
Manipulating
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Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. 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 / Film Director
Future
Guilty
Horror
Serpent
Subconscious
Life Always People
Life Future Always
Come
Absolute
Afraid
Skin
Try
Away
Back
Boring People
Else
Must
Hidden
Limit
Push
Secrets
Shedding
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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 / Film Director
Men
Children
Cinema
Film Critics
Moved On
Screenwriting
Young Man
Critic
Directing
Sergio
Precisely
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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.
Dario Argento / Film Director
Girl
Men
Beautiful
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