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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
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.
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
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.
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.
We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
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.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
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.
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
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.
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.
My life and career is my own adventure.
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.
'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.
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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 like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic.
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.