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.
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
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.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
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.
When I see a film I’ve finished, it’s like another person made it. Like another mind.
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.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
I also don’t like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don’t like.
I’m Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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.
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
It’s incredible that they censor films. It’s sad.
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.
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.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.