When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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.
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
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.
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
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.
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.
There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
