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Dario Argento

Profession : Director

Birth : September 7, 1940

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Dario Argento

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!'

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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.

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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 secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

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

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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'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

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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.

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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

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

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So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

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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 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.

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If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

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I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.

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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.

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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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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.

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Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.

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