My life and career is my own adventure.
Dario Argento

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
Dario Argento

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

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

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

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

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
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

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

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

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

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