It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

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

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.

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

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.