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

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.

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

You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring.

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.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.