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

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

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

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

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

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.

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