Dario Argento
Dario Argento
Dario Argentois an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 September 1940
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
absolute life people
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
almost distances hitchcock room shot tables
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.
began family follow phantom rains stories vacation
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.
copies former good italian-director
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
secret skins trying
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.
definitions emotion anticipation
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
way film making-changes
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.
psychology horror film
Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
beautiful girl men
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.
dream real imagination
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.
watches stories strange
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
men film problem
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
luxury able lucky
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.