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60 quotes by Dario Argento

Dario Argento (Italian: [ˈdarjo arˈdʒɛnto]; born September 7, 1940) is 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.
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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.... →

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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... →

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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 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... →

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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... →

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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

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I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

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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... →

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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... →

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I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

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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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