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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 little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.


Dario Argento

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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
DARIO ARGENTO You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
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DARIO ARGENTO Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear ...
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 Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were...
DARIO ARGENTO Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
DARIO ARGENTO Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
DARIO ARGENTO But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
DARIO ARGENTO But now we have bought the film back and it will be shown in Paris in the original version for the f...
DARIO ARGENTO But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
DARIO ARGENTO I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I s...
DARIO ARGENTO Masters of Horror
DARIO ARGENTO There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
DARIO ARGENTO Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I hum...
DARIO ARGENTO There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
DARIO ARGENTO Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films....
DARIO ARGENTO Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearf...
DARIO ARGENTO I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, ...
DARIO ARGENTO I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
DARIO ARGENTO Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. I...
DARIO ARGENTO My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so...
DARIO ARGENTO When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
DARIO ARGENTO If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
DARIO ARGENTO This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
DARIO ARGENTO I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most i...
DARIO ARGENTO My life and career is my own adventure.
DARIO ARGENTO So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
DARIO ARGENTO The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an af...
DARIO ARGENTO Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbel...
DARIO ARGENTO I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
DARIO ARGENTO Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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ASIA ARGENTO Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of m...
ASIA ARGENTO [Vin Diesel] is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attrac...
ASIA ARGENTO People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go aro...
ASIA ARGENTO Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
ASIA ARGENTO What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
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DARIO FO Know how to live the time that is given you.
DARIO FO I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. E...
DARIO FO Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
DARIO FO A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevanc...
DARIO FO In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of c...
DARIO FO Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
DARIO FO I know what Tony told you. But it looked to me like he lifted. I'll get to the bottom of it.
DARIO FRANCHITTI It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
DARIO FO Cuban-Americans view him as part of the administration, and said if he really believed what he was s...
DARIO MORENO Growth did dip in the fourth quarter, but all of the business surveys suggest it will bounce back qu...
DARIO PERKINS Ask ten engineers for the best orbit for a particular spacecraft and you'll get ten different ideas.
DARIO IZZO It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
DARIO FO We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a t...
DARIO FO Of course we can do it. But more importantly the players have begun to think we can do it.
DARIO GRADI Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the M...
DARIO FO We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan,
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DARIO FRANCHITTI It's looking difficult now. (Wheldon) and his team keep doing this kind of a job.
DARIO FRANCHITTI We just cannot continue to have these things happen.
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DARIO FO When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO The industry is moving on. Digital is here and it's here to stay. HMV and Virgin have been slower to...
DARIO BETTI Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hear...
DARIO FO It gives Raul's side a tremendous strategic advantage, either way. It freezes the opposition. It's b...
DARIO MORENO We think that the future of spaceflight is in using new systems, new architectures and exploring tec...
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DARIO FO I had the clutch pedal depressed, but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled...
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DARIO FRANCHITTI I actually thought it was closer than that. It was close enough.
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DARIO FO Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important docum...
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DARIO BETTI Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
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DARIO MORENO I don't mind the money coming in. Just spend it properly.
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DARIO MARENCO I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.
DARIO MARENCO We've done everything they've asked in order to get them to build at the airport.
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DARIO MARENCO I could not see any house standing anymore.
DARIO LIBATAN The response to the competition was excellent. At the meeting we will discuss the different methods ...
DARIO IZZO If we'd have lost I would have said it would be mission impossible.
DARIO GRADI He's exactly the type of player I've been waiting for - he's got all the qualities I need.
DARIO GRADI It's a tough league, the toughest it has been and we have to play at our very best. Maybe that isn't...
DARIO GRADI I fully expect Juan to have something sorted out before the weekend,
DARIO GRADI With the rule as it is at the moment he is unsignable, which seems a little harsh on him because I w...
DARIO GRADI Hopefully, he can go out on loan, score some goals and show that he has the ability to come back and...
DARIO GRADI I would only really look to bring him back here if I was going to play him in the first team,
DARIO GRADI The sending-off changed the game but we didn't have the quality to finish them off.
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DARIO FRANCHITTI A split parliament would be the worst-case scenario.
DARIO PERKINS It shows quite clearly that Europe's benefiting from strong global demand, and there are now signs t...
DARIO PERKINS Hiring intentions seem to have gone up a little bit and confidence is edging up. It's right to assum...
DARIO PERKINS It confirms everyone's expectations that they'll raise rates in March. When growth is improving, you...
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DARIO FO Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interes...
DARIO FO At the root of everything I write is tragedy.
DARIO FO For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it dow...
DARIO FO Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
DARIO FO We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together...
DARIO FO All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are bein...
DARIO FO Laughter does not please the mighty.
DARIO FO While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
DARIO FO With comedy I can search for the profound.
DARIO FO It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain comp...
DARIO FO Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of cultu...
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