There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

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

The only true mystery is that our very lives are governed by dead people.

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

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

When I was five. That’s when I started to love film.

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

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.

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.

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.