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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

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Dario Argento
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: September 7
Composer
Director
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
The Eternal City
Sirio Bernadotte
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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.
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Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
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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.
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I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
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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.
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I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
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If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.
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Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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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.
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