Dario Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Dario Argento

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

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe. — Dario Fo

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento

Know how to live the time that is given you. — Dario Fo

I wanted something new, the supernatural. The witch, the sorcerer, I love this. I love the films of the witch and sorcerers and magic, its wonderful! — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim. — Elizabeth McKenna

Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent. — Dario Fo

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. — Dario Fo

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. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege. — Jerry Vlasak

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. — Dario Argento

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. — Dario Argento

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience. — Dario Argento

We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us. — Dario Fo

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. — Dario Argento

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 Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid. — Dario Argento

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death. — Dario Fo

54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors. — Roberto Bolano

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. — Dario Fo

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. — Dario Fo

With comedy I can search for the profound. — Dario Fo

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. — Dario Fo

Health and an able body are two jewels. — Dario Fo

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. — Dario Argento

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. — Dario Argento

I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan ... and in the United Kingdom. — Dario Argento

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. — Ruben Dario

The treacheries of ambition never cease. — Ruben Dario

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. — Dario Fo

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you. — Dario Fo

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo

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

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. — Dario Argento

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. — Dario Argento

Part of the reason why I want to write these books is to make everybody realize that we're all fantastic.

Sara Alexi in interview with Dario Ciriello — Sara Alexi

I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing. — Dario Argento

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know. — Dario Argento

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. — Dario Fo

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. — Dario Argento

Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different. — Dario De Judicibus

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. — Dario Argento

Paradise is too perfect for humanity. — Dario Argento

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs. — Ruben Dario

'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. — Dario Argento

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression. — Dario Fo

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. — Dario Fo

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly. — Dario Argento

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing. — Ashley Judd

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. — Dario Argento

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like. — Dario Argento

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

in a dinner at our house that weekend. — Dario Ciriello

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. — Dario Fo

Listen," whispers Dario. "How still it is." They stand under a darkened archway, the only sound a whispered squeak where docked gondolas rub against each other. Negative ions from the lapping water release serotonin, and the brains of these two flood with the nourishment of each other's breath, each other's chi. — Kristen Caven

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. — Dario Argento

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

My life and career is my own adventure. — Dario Argento

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized. — Dario Fo

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad. — Dario Argento

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance. — Dario Fo

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death — Ruben Dario

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.' — Dario Fo

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and ... pssss ... they deflate. — Dario Fo

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. — Dario Fo

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing. — Dario Argento

Brother,you who have the light, tell me mine.
I am like a blind man. I go without direction and fumble along.
I go under tempests and storms,
blind with fantasy and crazy with harmony.
That is my malady. Dreaming. Poetry
is the iron jacket with a thousand bloody points
I wear upon my soul. The bloodstained thorns
spill the drops of my melancholy.
And so I go, blind and crazy, through this bitter world;
at times it seems to me that the path is very long,
and at times that it's very short ...
And in this back-and-forth between eagerness and agony,
I am full of woes I can hardly bear.
Don't you hear the drops of my melancholy falling? — Ruben Dario

When I was five. That's when I started to love film. — Dario Argento

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

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

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events. — Dario Fo

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns. — Dario Fo

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe. — Dario Fo

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's. — Dario Castrillon Hoyos

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors. — Dario Argento

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

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. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

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

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. — Dario Argento

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. — Dario Fo

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life. — Ruben Dario

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!' — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

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. — Dario Argento

There's nothing gratuitous about my films. — Dario Argento

To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost — Dario Spini