Italian - Director | September 7, 1940 -
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
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You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
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I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.
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Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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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.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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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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There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
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If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
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