Top 100 Dario Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
Dario Argento
#3. 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
#4. The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter
#5. Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
Ashley Judd
#6. 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
#7. Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
Dario Fo
#8. We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
Dario Fo
#9. You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
Ruben Dario
#10. Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
Dario Fo
#11. Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death
Ruben Dario
#12. 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
#13. The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
Dario Argento
#14. 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
#15. Civilization is the ability to share what makes us similar in the respect of what makes us different.
Dario De Judicibus
#16. When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
Dario Fo
#17. It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
Dario Argento
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
Dario Argento
#24. 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
#26. I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
Dario Argento
#27. 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
#28. Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo
#29. 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
#30. I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan ... and in the United Kingdom.
Dario Argento
#31. When I was five. That's when I started to love film.
Dario Argento
#32. No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
Dario Argento
#33. 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
#34. But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Dario Argento
#35. I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.
Ruben Dario
#36. Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed after the atrocities have halted.
Dario Spini
#37. I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
Dario Argento
#38. 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
#39. I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
Dario Argento
#40. And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
Dario Fo
#41. Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Dario Fo
#42. It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
Dario Fo
#43. 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
#44. Health and an able body are two jewels.
Dario Fo
#45. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Dario Argento
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
Dario Argento
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.
Dario Argento
#53. This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
Dario Argento
#54. 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
#55. With comedy I can search for the profound.
Dario Fo
#56. 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
#58. Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
Dario Fo
#59. 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
#60. Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Dario Fo
#61. What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.
Dario Castrillon Hoyos
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
Ruben Dario
#65. 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
#67. Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
Dario Fo
#68. I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Dario Argento
#69. Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
Ruben Dario
#71. When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
Dario Argento
#72. Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
Dario Argento
#73. '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
#74. 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
#75. It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
Dario Argento
#76. 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
#77. Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.
Dario Fo
#78. Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
Dario Argento
#79. 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
#80. All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Dario Fo
#81. 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
#82. I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Dario Argento
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
Dario Fo
#86. Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
Dario Argento
#87. Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
Dario Fo
#88. 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
#89. '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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
Dario Fo
#94. I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
Dario Argento
#95. If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
Dario Argento
#96. To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost
Dario Spini
#97. The treacheries of ambition never cease.
Ruben Dario
#98. I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Dario Argento
#99. 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
#100. In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Dario Argento
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